WAR OF THE GENDERS -- MEN VS WOMEN

Who is more smarter...men or women??

The million dollar question...isnt it?

A question which has  intrigued and baffled so many readers,researchers and scientists alike.Throughout the ages there have been so many researches,surveys and studies conducted on this topic

The word "smart" is itself hard to define.There are Street Smarts, Book Smarts, Creativity, Music smarts, Wit and cleverness...All are measures of intelligence.

For eg : A female friend of mine is qualified doctor,working in a very famous hospital,yet she cant read a basic area navigation map.Another friend of mine is a proffesional guitarist...when he starts playing his guitar...the audience remains spellbound!!...but he needs a calculator to calculate how much would 50 + 30 be!!

Another friend of mine is a genius in mathemetics,can solve the most complex of mathemetical problems without a calculator....but when it comes to reading,he can barely read a paragraph without making an error and continuously

I can give you countless of such examples from day to day life.Some men can be smarter than some women and some women can be smarter than some men. We all are different.We all have our own areas of expertise and weaknesses No man is perfect and no woman is perfect. There's no answer that anyone can prove with fact or at least not yet.

However in order to try and get close to a precise conclusion  in this war of the genders,we shall take a close look and introspect upon a few parameters as given below :

IQ Tests:

This used to be a traditional male bastion.Ever since the IQ Test began about a century ago,men have always had a lead of about 5-15 points than woman, leading psychologists to suggest embedded genetic differences.

Read  :  DO MEN REALLY HAVE A BETTER IQ THAN WOMAN?

However keeping abreast with the changing times,women,it seems have finally decided to beat men in thier own den,and take the lead!!The way women have progressed in other fields like science,technology etc...which were ardently presumed to be a male domain,similarly this year women have moved ahead, according to James Flynn, a world-renowned authority on IQ tests.

"In the last 100 years the IQ scores of both men and women have risen but women's have risen faster ," the Daily Mail quoted Flynn as saying. "This is a consequence of modernity.

The complexity of the modern world is making our brains adapt and raising our IQ," he said.

One possible explanation for this change is that women's lives have now become more demanding as they multitask between raising a family and doing a job.Another reason could be that women have a slightly higher potential intelligence than men but are realizing it only now. Flynn, who will publish his findings in a book,
said more data was needed to explain the trend.

Read : WHAT DOES IQ REALLY MEASURES?

The brain – where women are different : 

Women have slightly smaller brains than men (they weigh about 4oz/100g less) but, as we know, size isn't everything. Elephants, for instance, have much larger brains than humans, but nobody believes they have more intellect. And though women's brains are smaller than men's, they both have a very similar ratio of brain weight to body weight.

Women also have 4 per cent fewer brain cells than men, but this doesn't mean they use them less! There are other male/female differences too!The frontal lobe of the brain plays a major part in making judgements, planning future actions, and in language. Women have far more cells here than men.

Read : HOW DO MALE AND FEMALE BRAIN DIFFER?

The hemispheres 

It is believed that these two halves of the brain probably work differently. The left side helps us think analytically, while the right side helps us look at things as a whole,  involving value judgements and emotion. Men are more likely to be "left-brain dominant" while women are thought to use both hemispheres more equally.

The corpus callosum transfers information between both halves of the brain. Women have a bigger corpus callosum than men, which may account for the fact that women score better on tests of thought fluency and speech.

The limbic system affects our emotions and is, on the whole, bigger in women. Together with a female brain's greater ability to transfer information between its two sides, these facts may help account for women's greater emotional sensitivity.

The bigger limbic system may also mean that women feel negative emotions more sharply, opening them up to a greater risk of depression.

Read : HOW MEDITATION CAN BENEFIT YOUR BRAIN ?

Grey matter and white matter

Processing information goes on in the grey matter, while white matter connects the different parts of our brain, enabling us to carry out various tasks. Women tend to have far more white matter than men, while men are endowed with far more grey matter. Could any or all of these differences above be an explanation for the popular theory that women are better at "multitasking" than men?

The hypothalamus controls the endocrine system that produces many of the hormones in the body. The functions it regulates include sexual function, sleep, water content, and body
temperature. In men the hypothalamus is about twice as big and contains twice as many cells as it does in women.

Read : THINGS MEN WANT TO TELL WOMEN,BUT AVOID TELLING IT

Visual-Spatial Tests

Research has shown that, on the whole, men perform better than women at visual-spatial tests, so they are good at understanding the things we see and putting them in context – for instance, the way a car engine is put together. Men also tend to be better at tests involving maths.

Women do better at tests involving language and words, as well as verbal reasoning. They also score better on some memory tests.

It is increasingly believed that men greatly outnumber women in top academic posts in the sciences due to institutionalized discrimination. Now that this has been recognized, greater numbers of women are rising to top posts.

Words and Verbal fluency : 

In a reasearch conducted by lumosity.com, a task that asks you to generate as many words as you can that begin with a certain three-letter stem was given to a group including men and women
For example, the stem might be “psy-” and you could create “psych,” “psyche,” “psychology,” etc. Looking at data from 78,816 females and 37,744 males who met the criteria for this analysis,
we see that, on average, females perform slightly better on this task than males (see the figure below).



This sample was drawn from users at the beginning of their experience with Lumosity, i.e. before they’ve done much training. According to the data, the average female could generate 18.6 words per game,
while the average male came up with about 16.9 words. So, at least by this measure, we can say that women have the advantage when it comes to generating words. This dovetails with the claims made my most
scientific literature that females have, in general, an advantage when it comes to verbal processing in the brain.

Read : HOW DOES SEX DIFFERENCE AFFECT VERBAL FLUENCY?

Arithmatics

The average female was initially able to solve 60.9 equations per mathematic game, while the average male could solve 64.6 equations per game. While males have a clear advantage here, it’s worth noting that this advantage

(6%, as measured by performance on Raindrops) is not as impressive as the advantage females have when it comes to verbal reasoning (10%, as measured by performance).

Conclusion : 

God himself did not discriminate when he made our world.Men and women do have their differences,the way you find variety in nature..Its the absolute duty of every parent,to provide right circumstances and oppurtunities,to a child,without making any kind of discrimination on the grounds of his or her gender.

Data : canadianliving.com,lumosity.com