In article <3D2F9A44.2503D0E9 at gwi.net>, "Mark D. Morin"
<mdmpsyd at PETERHOOD69gwi.net> wrote:
> 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 That's obviously out of date - the general belief nowdays is that women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
>
This very page says that "It is a very select group of Americans, less
than 0.1% of the US population, which takes the Graduate Record Exam each
year."
Thus we can conclude absolutely nothing from the data as it is not
representative of the US population, only 0.1% of it.
