"John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
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>> "Shadow Dancer" <insomniac at winterslight.org> wrote in message
> news:agm2br$mukqa$1 at ID-150265.news.dfncis.de...> > Here are some I just dug up:
> >
> > http://www.brainplace.com/bp/malefemaledif/default.asp> >
> > For some really scientific stuff:
> > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~kc/Hemi/CogNeuro97.html> >
> > Here is some stuff on brain shrinkage with age - looks like the male has
a
> > disadvantage:
> >
http://www.docguide.com/dg.nsf/PrintPrint/30F67BF5DA97292E852565AA0054575D
> >
> > Here is a Google cached page with some very interesting data on it:
> >
>http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:Gv6JWusC0bgC:www.epub.org.br/cm/n11/men
> > te/eisntein/cerebro-homens.html+male,+female,+brain&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
> >
> > And here is a scientific paper which clearly refutes any notion that the
> > female brain is inferior to the male's:
> > http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Thompson/psychsex.htm> >
> > And yet another:
> > http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/heshe.html> >
> > My terminology was wrong, I meant the corpus callosum. Either way,
women
> > use their entire brains more efficiently than men do and, once again,
size
> > does NOT matter :P
> >
> >
>> Not only was your terminology wrong, but so were your conclusions. Here
are
> some I just dug up. In the following 12 subjects, no country scored lower
> than American 12th Grade Girls who scored:
>> 22 points lower than American boys and 90 points lower than Greek girls in
> Numbers & Equations.
>> 41 points lower than American boys and 123 points lower than Cypriot girls
> in Calculus.
>> 31 points lower than American boys and 121 points lower than French girls
in
> Geometry.
>> 34 points lower than American boys and 139 points lower than Norwegian
girls
> in Physics.
>> 53 points lower than American boys and 130 points lower than Norwegian
girls
> in Mechanics.
>> 21 points lower than American boys and 152 points lower than Swedish girls
> in Electricity & Magnetism.
>> 6 points lower than American boys and 37 points lower than Norwegian girls
> in Heat.
>> 18 points lower than American boys and 86 points lower than Swedish girls
in
> Wave Phenomena.
>> 20 points lower than American boys and 92 points lower than Swedish girls
in
> Modern Physics.
>> 31 points lower than American boys and 117 points lower than French girls
in
> Advanced Math.
>> 23 points lower than American boys and 65 points lower than Swedish girls
in
> General Science.
>> 11 points lower than American boys and 77 points lower than Dutch girls in
> General Math.
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> ----
>> Zero percent of American 12th grade girls correctly solved TIMSS math
> problems.
>> Zero percent of American 12th grade girls correctly solved TIMSS physics
> problems.
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> ----
>> Among American students on other standardized tests:
>> In the quantitative section of the Graduate Record Exam:
>> Mexican boys score 3 points higher than White girls.
>> Mexican boys score 59 points higher than girls who major in education.
>> The average boys' score is 72 points higher than average girls' score.
>> Foreign boys score 171 points higher than American girls.
>> Asian boys score 234 points higher than black girls.
>> Boys who major in engineering score 251 points higher than girls who major
> in education.
>> In the verbal section of the Graduate Record Exam:
>> Asian boys score 5 points higher than White girls.
>> Mexican boys score 23 points higher than girls who major in education.
>> Boys who major in humanities score 114 points higher than girls who major
in
> education.
>> White boys score 124 points higher than black girls.
>> In the analytical section of the Graduate Record Exam:
>> Mexican boys score 8 points higher than girls who major in education.
>> Indian boys score 15 points higher than girls who major in education.
>> Hispanic boys score 27 points higher than girls who major in education.
>> Asian boys score 79 points higher than girls who major in education.
>> White boys score 99 points higher than girls who major in education.
>> Boys score 46 points higher than girls in SAT math.
>> Boys score 2 points higher than girls in ACT math.
>> Boys score 5 points higher than girls in NAEP math.
>> Boys score 53 points higher than girls in TIMSS physics.
>> Boys score 41 points higher than girls in TIMSS calculus.
>> Swiss boys score 47 points higher than Swiss girls in TIMSS calculus.
>> Boys score 17 points higher than girls in IAEP math.
>> Would you mind telling us again, Shadow Dancer, whose brain it is that you
> believe is "damaged"?
>> John Knight
Your studies have been proven wrong.
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Thompson/psychsex.htm
To Quote:
"The most important single contribution to our knowledge of the facts of the
case is to be found in Dr. Franklin P. Mall's paper 'On Several Anatomical
Characters of the Human Brain Said to Vary According to Race and Sex, with
Especial Reference to the Weight of the Frontal Lobe' (Am. J. of Anat., IX.,
p. 1, 1909). Dr. Mall's general conclusion is that there is as yet no
reliable evidence for the variation of anatomical characters with either
race or sex. The belief that the brains of females differ from those of
males has been widely accepted, and has been thought to be conclusive
evidence of the permanent inferiority of the female mind. The points in
which the female brain has been said to be inferior to the male are: (1)
total weight; (2) proportionate weight of the frontal lobe indicated by (a)
actual weighings, and (b) determinations of the position of the central
sulcus; (3) the area of the corpus callosum; (4) the complexity of gyri and
sulci; (5) the conformation of gyri and sulci; and (6) the rate of
development of the cortex in the foetus. Dr. Mall's paper gives a critical
review of the literature of the subject to date, and adds important new
data.
It is now a generally accepted belief that the smaller gross weight of the
female brain has no significance other than that of the smaller average size
of the female. With regard to the other anatomical characters enumerated,
Dr. Mall shows that those observers who have found differences
characteristic of sex have been guilty of serious errors in scientific
procedure. They have based conclusions on too small a series of
observations, have used methods too crude to make anything but large and
constant differences (which they did not obtain) significant, have made
their determinations with a knowledge of the sex of [p. 336] the brain under
consideration, and have even, in some cases, drawn conclusions not justified
by their own data. Those observers who have avoided these errors have found
no differences characteristic of sex. Dr. Mall himself finds none, and is
inclined to believe that they do not exist. The only exception to this
statement is that he finds some evidence of a greater tendency of the male
brain to vary from the normal conformation of gyri and sulci. "
I know you didn't read the materials I offered, you were just waiting for my
reply.
Try reading the entire study, as well as the others.
The Shadow Dancer
