John Knight wrote:
>> "Angilion" <angilion at ypical.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:3d2f507c.20059553 at news.freeserve.net...> > [several groups cut to avoid excessive crossposting]
> >
> > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:19:57 -0500, "Shadow Dancer"
> > <insomniac at winterslight.org> wrote:
> >
> > [..]
> >
> > >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.
> >
> > That's obviously out of date - the general belief nowdays is that women
> > are *more* intellectually capable than men. Try reading the posts
> > John Knight was replying to, for example. Are you going to
> > counter those, or are you one of the many who think that female
> > people are innately superior to male people?
> >
> > You are going back to 1910 for that paper. Do you think that's
> > actually relevant to today, especially in her conclusions about
> > the prevailing belief concerning which sex is mentally superior?
> >
> > As an aside, I have seen it hypothesised that brain mass correlates with
> > height. That would neatly explain the average difference in brain
> > mass between men and women (as an artefact of the average
> > difference in height) and the hypothesis sounds plausible. However,
> > I haven't seen any evidence for it. Do you have any?
> >
>> Because of Wechsler's LIE, they obviously started with the thesis that "men
> and women have the same IQ", and then worked backwards from there to prove
> the thesis.
>> They're just like Wechlser.
>> "When Wechsler was developing his IQ test, he found that out of 105 tests
> assessing skills in solving maze-puzzles, involving the most heterogeneous
> populations throughout the world, 99 showed an incontrovertible male
> superiority. (Wechsler resolved this type of problem by eliminating all
> those tests that resulted in findings of significant sex differences.)"
>Leonardo_member at newsguy.com in 9miftl0239r at drn.newsguy.com>> They throw out 94% of the test,
What test? It wasn't constructed yet.
then proclaim "the sexes are equal".
>> But GRE enables us to put those questions BACK on the table,
strange, none of the published research, available at
http://www.gre.org/respredict.html support that hypothesis.
> and expose
> Wechlser's LIE:
>http://christianparty.net/gregeometry.htm>>http://christianparty.net/gre.htm>> John Knight
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