Are men, by nature, smarter than women?

[Shuri]

Yes

No

[hellionthesagereborn]

Statistically men are smarter BUT they are also less smart. In short you have far more male genius's then female ones but you also have more male idiots then female ones. The reason is because with males evolutionary strategy is different, their are far more routes to acquiring a mate then their are for women. Women need to 1. be able to actually give birth to the offspring and survive (this is why her body and physical features matter, they are all indicators of increased survivability in child birthing (in fact the "bubble butt", is so desired because the bend in the vertabre that causes it helps distribute weight during pregnancy to act essentially as a counter balance. This means less joint stress and greater mobility during pregnancy which historically meant greater survival), and 2. Nurture the child until such a time they are ready to survive on their own. So this narrows the criteria for women to be rather basic in nature. For men however, they can be smart or strong or what have you because for men the goal is 1. Have good genes (so good looks means good genetics and thus by extension good health which will be passed onto the child), 2. Have resources (this means he has to be able to acquire food shelter etc. for the woman and the offspring so this can come in him being a hard worker or being very clever) 3. Be able to defend and protect her and the offspring. So For women the need to be intelligent is not really their as a primary driver of her genetic survival, its tertiary and it definitely doesn't hurt but its not a necessity which is why statistically women have a very narrow intelligence distribution (i. e. the overwhelming majority of women are average intelligence). For men however, he can have good genes (pretty boy), be strong and aggressive (protector), or great at resource gathering/acquisition (persistence, drive, and intelligence). So basically nature has more avenues for men to acquire a mate then it does for women hence men being both statistically more likely to be intelligent and also less intelligent then women.

[englisc]

No. Men and women have the same average IQ scores. However they they arrive at that average is different. For women the majority of them are around the average. With men there is actually more variance between the male scores, with more men at the top and bottom. So basically, there are more male geniuses as well as more male idiots.

You can see examples of this everywhere. Most of the things we rely on today we invented by men. There are more men at the top of society, but also more men at the bottom e. g. men make 90% of the homeless. Even on here you'll see that most of the ridiculously stupid questions are asked by men.

There are differences in the way men and women think though too. These differences are easily seen and it should be common sense, but they're also shown in personality tests such as the MTBI test. Women tend to think more based on feelings than logic, and men more on logic than feelings.

Look at the jobs men and women tend to choose. Some say that this has to do with social conditioning and gender stereotypes, but those stereotypes come from our nature anyway.

In countries like Sweden for example they heavily focus on feminism and trying to equalise men and women by pushing more women into typically male dominated careers and more men into typically female dominated careers. So men and women in these countries have more choice than in other countries. Yet in these countries with more freedom of choice, MORE women CHOOSE typically female dominated careers, and MORE men CHOOSE typically male dominated careers. Nurses still tend to be 90% female, and engineers still tend to be 90% male.

Women tend to choose careers based on caring for people, nursing, teaching, childcare, anything to do with dealing with people - which require high emotional intelligence. Men tend to choose careers more logically/practically based - engineering, mechanics, construction, business (numbers).

Men tend to be smarter than when it comes to logic, women tend to be smarter when it comes to emotion/socially.

[yoshi_wanna_ask]

I think guys are naturally have more mathematical, strategic and problem solving intelligence and women have a naturally higher environmental (world around them), social and perceptive (how things affect each other/cause & effect) intelligence. There's always going to be cross over with different nature/nurture and peoples developmental hormone levels but it becomes pretty clear people have different kinds of intelligences.

[HiHelloHowdyHiyah]

I clicked no but it all really depends because I met some not so bright females. And I had smarter male professors than females. But then again when I put a smart male against a smart female I think the males would lose because the female would be 10 steps ahead of him hahaha

[The1Guy]

Yes, but women are wiser.
Statistically, you can compare men and women by high academic achievments and you'll find that men are the majority. But it's not that simple, because if you look into a lower achiebment bracket, you may find women in the majority.

There are a lotof factors thatplay into this. But by nature men are generally smarter and more creative than women because they tend to take more risks and play around with their chosen subjects, they are more goal oriented, if they have goals and are more willing to sacrifice themselves for their chosen goals.

But women are much more down to earth and practical. They seem to breathe life's wisdom to the point that they don't feel the need to discover it. It comes naturally to them.

Sadly this wisdom has not been valued enough or measured. If it had been, we might have lived in a very different world.

In the end, the best thing is a combination of the two. The most successful people are in fact most successful couples. It's just, that the woman by nature chooses to be behind the man, safer, but feeds him her ideas and desires, cheering him on to achieve what she wants for the both of them. And he can take even more risks, knowing, that she'll be waiting for him in an emotionally warm and stable home, created by her.

They benefit together by utilising each others strengths.

[lumos]

Yes and no. Intelligence in males swing in extremes. There are more highly intelligent men than there are women, but also more highly unintelligent men than women. Which means that the average woman is more likely to be intelligent than the average male. So if intelligence is described with a bell curve, with low intelligence being on one end and high intelligence being on the other, the curve for men would be broader and lower, and for women it would be narrower and higher. Like this:

At the ends you can see men scoring both worse and better than women, meaning that in extreme cases, men are both smarter and dumber than women. But as for the average, women score higher.

[Jkfgjdejj]

Men are more intelligent!
Don’t forget, man have designed and built everything in the world.

[hahahmm]

No. But in general women tend to want to nurture/cuddle & do things men don’t find “constructive”. Apparently this goes way back in time as a recent study of baby baboons in the wild showed that males preferred to play with toy cars (trying to figure out how the wheels worked) while females preferred to hug stuffed dolls.

That said it’s a spectrum. The smartest woman is as smart as the smartest guy. The dumbest guy is as dumb as the dumbest woman. Also things are skewed by the fact that a woman can get ahead with some guys by *pretending* to be dumb.

[CubsterShura]

I don't think so. I mean, tablecloths exist because someone invented them so that men don't get turned on by them sexy tables legs, sooooooooo

Jk that's a myth 😂 I do find it harder to think men are smarter for several reasons. Objectively, the 'average' smartness is the same for both men and women. But if you look deeper, more men tend to be on the best and worst ends whereas more women tend to be in-between. So there are definitely more men among the SMARTEST of people, no doubt in that. But overall, like I said, it's pretty much the same.

[SuperManiac]

From what I understand of IQ and areas like aptitude in science and math (although I think intelligence goes far beyond this), what tends to happen is that the averages between the two sexes are roughly the same, meaning your average man and woman are about equal here.

But the nature of the bell curve, and what happens on the extreme ends, is quite different, where men are grossly over-represented at both the worst (the "dumbest", i. e.) and the best (the "smartest"). On the flip side, the person with the highest recorded IQ ever in the world is a woman: Marilyn vos Savant. All I take from this is not to generalize a person based on their sex, and account for the wild differences from one individual to the next. But it might explain some of the statistical disparities in outcomes between the two sexes.

[SuperManiac]

What that sort of data tells me is that if males overrepresent some of the top scientists and engineers and such, it may not be so much the result of discrimination so much as the differences in the bell curves, and likewise, we'd find males overrepresented among those with significant learning disabilities. But while that might explain a lot, I don't see it as a reason to discriminate, since the first person with the potential to find a cure for cancer might be a female, even if that's less probable.

So I'm in favor of using this type of knowledge to explain outcomes, but not to judge individuals. After all, if we want to judge who is the best engineer, we'd have to filter out a lot of very incompetent men as well, and the next best applicant who is best suited for the job might be a female.

[Ámayas_20]

No. We know men and women on average have the same general intelligence while there is differences in what types of intelligence, for example, women tend to have better memories and view things with more emotions causing them to see things deeper while men tend to view things more logically and precise so want to solve the individual issues and have better spacial awareness and many more differences. We do know however that if you have a genius they're more likely to be male but if you have a complete idiot they're also more likely to be male while women are more clustered around the average.

[lightbulb27]

Define the word smart?

I suspect we in general have strengths in certain areas whereas women have strengths in other areas... based upon how we are madeup and what we had to learn to survive.

for example, females are more emotionally attuned than men and can in general read emotion quicker, and more sensory all around. Men can be more focused upon objects. It take some research and science to chart out and map this all out...

I have no idea... never thought about it. I do not see patterns in math and science... logic.

it could be it is just a matter of how ones mind/brain is madeup and luck of the draw genes and personality.

[PositiveNote]

Smarter at what? It's proven that men can handle some brain work better than women, but women have all the advantage! You can access different parts of the brain all at the same time while men are still stuck in 1st gear. If you give men longer time, they will often come up with the same answers, but women out pace a decision by a man every time if they have all the info they need to process it.

Then, of course, a polite woman will stifle her answer until her man figures it out and tell him he is very smart. A polite man knows that she had the answer the whole time and says, "Thanks."

[oddwaffle]

No. Men take more risks and tend to be more decisive in making uncertain situations.

This lead to more visible and noticable successes, giving the image of the successful man. However, they also experience crippling losts and doesn't have a higher success ratio than women. People just tend to remember the successful men and ignore the men who didn't make it.

Women tend to be more conservative and rarely take on risky gambles. They have less big wins and visible successes but also a lot less failures

[Blightly]

Let me preface this with "no offense, facts and research can be offensive at times esp at this day and age". Also determining what is smart is much more difficult than determining what is intelligent. These are not one in the same. However, male brains are more specialized for problem solving as opposed to women's brains which have much greater connectivity between the two hemispheres.

[mrArcher]

Men and women have different types of intelligence. Men can disonnect thoughts from emotions and their thoughts are usually not intertwined, unlike women. When women think, they think about EVERYTHING. Everything is connected in women's brains. As a result, women are better at multitasking or tasks that require multiple perspectives, such as management, directing or nursing. Men, however can focus on something for hours, because they never worry about two things at once. As a result, men are better engineers, handcrafters, surgeons or whatever needs great focus.

We're not smarter than one another, we complement one another.

[DWornock]

It depends on the subject. If it is math, computers, engineering, science, or logic, it's not even close. However, women tend to be smarter at deception, language, and social skills. Girls on average, certainly have better grades in K through 12 public schools.

The fact is men and women are different and have different values. Men are far more expendable than women. Kill 95% of men and in 20 years or one generation, the population is restored. Kill 95% of the women and it will take more than 100 years, four or five generations, for the population to be restored.

[Daniel3035]

It depends on the area of intelligence in terms of direction and leadership stuff like war tactics hunting all those things men are more intelligent in. If you mean stuff like collecting, cooking sort of keeping a habitat clean safe organised etc thats women. BUT because we mate and mix dna we pass on those genes to so what females have men have but not always women because men have XY women only get XX it's only when you have a boy to a girl does it pass on. So basically both genders have the potential to be smarter girls harder. On average men tend to have more intelligence it unfortunately shows on the dating front especially with reasoning but women can also be more intelligent.

[Kiran_Yagami]

No, men are by nature more extreme than women. Women on a statistical level cluster more around average intelligence. Men also cluster around average, but also have a high concentration on the extremes than women do. There are more male geniuses than female geniuses, but there are also more male idiots than female idiots. Men tend to favor extremes more than women do in almost all things. Competition, earnings, risk taking, IQ, and creativity. That's why there are more male CEOs than female CEOs, but also more male convicts than female convicts.

[EpicDweeb]

Not smarter, but more logical. Men feel emotion less powerfully thus it is less of an influence on the way we think, for better or worse. I'm of the belief that sometimes that which is logical is not that which is right and I think it's good that men and women have different ways of thinking through things. I think men and women are equally intelligent as a general rule but they work through things differently.

[Ellie-V]

I don’t know. I’ve met many idiots, some of them with penises and some of them with vaginas.

[markscott]

Men by nature are different from women, and often have different strengths in their intelligence compared to many women. But women have their own strengths in their intelligence compared to men. Both are equally intelligent, is some of the same ways, and in some different ways.

[Whaler]

I found very little research on this. However, on what I have found is that if we compare the IQ average of women and men, men have slightly higher IQ then a women does. However, I don’t believe this study took into consideration the race of both genders as yes, that does have a big role in the tests. All races have been found to have a much different IQ range. Furthermore, if we look into memory of both men and women, men have a shorter memory than a women does.

[spacePirate]

It's all relative to the person and situation that would measure the intelligence. woman are better multitaskers yes but I've met women who had thought Walt Disney was just a studio and not a real person... does this mean all woman are dumb? No. But those ones were, so again I just think went it comes to this particular matter you can't generalize an entire gender based on statistics

[DeshawnMGTOW]

there's nothing about women that make them better at multitasking. thats a myth

[SirRexington]

No. We evolved to have different roles and have different intrinsic skills and traits. Women see color better than men. Men are typically more agressive and have sturdier bones and muscle mass. The parts of our brains that we use are different. This is so we can focus on certain tasks that we evolved to be more inclined to do.

Neither is smarter than the other, of course there are individuals smarter than other individuals regardless of gender.