Are men generally more logical/rational than women?

[DaddiesLittleToy]

Yes. (explain why)

No. (explain why)

Other. (explain what you mean)

[nalaa]

Tbh I don't really see either gender reacting very emotional or over emotional

With one notable exception
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Seriously ever since the Trump administration men are not allowed to claim to be the less emotional sex

Anyway there are some studies and a lot of them find women react more emotional to SOME stimuli. However for the most part those are self reported. i. e. the women "I feel this sad" and men say "I don't feel sad".
But of course those incredibly inaccurate since men infamously are taught to contain their emotions more than women and women have grown up to this stereotype of "women are more emotional" so they associate an emotional response with feminity and the abscence of it with masculinity.
But there are studies that actually use a quantifiable measure or emotions and they somewhat consistently find that there is no gender difference or even that men react more emotional to SOME stimuli

Men are also kinda famous for being more jealous, to the point that they commit virtually all "crimes of passion". That's obviously a very emotional response but somehow people don't associate the two

[SuccessfulHornDog]

Tldr

[rushthesand]

That depends. If you do a survey/experiment, the score of mean/median logic for men will most likely be higher than women. However, is every single man more logical than every single woman? Puh-Lease.

[DaddiesLittleToy]

I meant generally. And I agree

[rushthesand]

I read somewhere that, in terms of intelligence, men consist of the most AND least intelligent people while women are mostly somewhere in the middle. So probably similar to that. It's tough to answer your question.

[DaddiesLittleToy]

I've read that also. Makes sense when you observe human behavior. Most geniuses and most insane people consists of mostly men

[KatherineJ]

I hate to say this, but I know my husband doesn't let his emotions cloud his decision making abilities. I wish I could say the same about me.

[SaltMommy]

Yes yes yes, men don't have these stupid emotions going on haha, also they make better decisions

[DaddiesLittleToy]

I admire your truthfulness 👍

[Phantomium]

Evolutionary psychology. Women are better at nurturing and taking care of someone. Being able to empathize with them is important skill. Men are better at more physically and mentally demanding jobs and emotional resilience is need for successful completion of such tasks. Take into account of millennia of conditioning and you end up with the current result. Even children raised in identical manner develop according to the built in standard. Our basic behavior patters are literally built into our genes.

[nalaa]

You can't just slap "Evolutionary psychology" onto everything. What you are saying makes sense, until you think about.
It's obvious that from an evolutionary standponit ideally men would be more sensetive to some emotions and women more to others. Think of jealousy. Seeing as men never really know if a child is actually theirs they have far more reasons to be and react jealous.
Think of fear. Men generally fear stronger which is a good because fear heightens your senses which is a good thing in a typical hunter scenario, or let's say war.
Think anger, men need to compete with other men much more than women do with each other (for sex). Anger is away of protecting or gaining social status, a family and wealth

[Phantomium]

@nalaa Well the question was not about strength of emotions but for being more logical and rational. To that end, I'd say men are better at "containing" their emotions even if in some cases (like the ones you said) they are stronger in them rather than in women. :)

[nalaa]

In some cases, sure but in some cases they are worse.
For example men by a large margin the perpetrators of murder and also the victims. That's badly controlled anger. And "crimes of passion" are almost entirely committed men that's terribly contained jealousy

To say that men overall act more logical is questionable and to say that is fact of evolution is just BS

[Mrwoo99]

We are biologically left brained beings and are renowned as the best scientists or mathematicians as such. Men have less emotional response or feeling and make decisions based on logic.

Because of this men or more likely to become psychopaths, you just ask if a woman really wants to work in a slaughter house or join army to fight on front lines like we did in 2nd world war... probably 99% women would say no.

[ProfessorScrewEyes]

I think it depends on the person in general and not their gender. I've known women that didn't express their emotions as freely and I've known men that were more emotional than some normal women i knew

[Thisperson98]

Generally men are more logical while women are more emotional. These characteristics are complements, because you can't base decisions solely on logic or emotion.

[jasonstav]

No no no, woman are too logical, men get distracted by other things

[ProjectBaby1K]

YES. Explain? Just look at feminism. That's all the rational/logical ability you need to have your question answered 😂

[helphelpimdying]

since clothes, shopping, makeup, shoes, and liking guys makes no sense to me... im gonna day they are not very logical at all.

[helphelpimdying]

also since im the most logical person on earth... i speak for men. i win. we win

[SuccessfulHornDog]

Generally yes, but we can lose that when we get jealous or hurt

[dolemite68]

of course they are in general but there are always exceptions

[Anonymous]

They've done studies that men are more rational. I can feel the Feminazis coming for me! Gotta run!

[DaddiesLittleToy]

😂👍 lol

[Opinion Owner]

Pretty much follow any girl on Twitter and you will see the studies come to life! 😂

[DaddiesLittleToy]

LMAO 👀

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I dunno why but it's definitely generally true. This is why guys usually do better in maths and science than girls

[Krista7]

Lol equal. But only with different things

[DaddiesLittleToy]

Please explain further.

[Krista7]

Guys come up with one way of how to do something and that's how they're doing it no further thinking on how it could be easier to do it another because to them there simply isn't another way. Girls just let emotions control their decisions too much without looking for a reason something might've happened

[Anonymous]

Science have shone that men are more logical and women are more emotional

[Babé_Hearts]

WOULD YOU REALLY WANT A BATTLE OF THE SEXES

[karahiri]

I think so.

[Noxifer626]

That is a prejudice rooted in sexism.

[Anonymous]

I think men and women both are

[CT_CD]

Yeah

[Anonymous]

Yes we are.