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brain sizes: Einstein's and women's

John Knight johnknight at usa.com
Mon Jul 15 14:20:47 EST 2002


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Subject: Re: [ChristianPatriot] Re: brain sizes: Einstein's and women's


> From:        Christian Party, christianparty at HotPOP.com
>
> >"Angilion" <angilion at ypical.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>
> >> 3)  You are making a stupidly irrational argument to support
> >> the prevailing sexism.  By your argument, losing weight
> >> would make a person more intelligent.  Losing a lot of
> >> weight would make them a lot more intelligent.  After all, the
> >> more weight they lost, the higher their brain mass to body mass
> >> ratio would become.  By your argument, anorexia is a sure
> >> route to genius.  A very nasty argument.
> This is /your/ stupid argument.  Losing weight is imposing on what was
> made naturally, that initially of the brain-body ratio.  It is a fact
> that females of all organisms are older, or have been around on this
> planet, longer than males, and as such have developed more such that
> their neurons are at an average 12-14% denser than that of males, and
> that they share newer or new structures compared to the males.  Today,
> female performance is caused by the division of labour and the disparity
> of stimulation and raising.
>


Really?

Then why do men outperform women by 14-50% on every test of brain output
ever constructed?

Is it your theory that it's not the smaller brains of women, but rather the
12-14% higher density of the female brain, that restricts the output?

John Knight

http://christianparty.net/timss.htm
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.







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