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brain sizes: Einstein's and women's

John Knight johnknight at usa.com
Fri Jul 19 09:47:39 EST 2002


"The 9th Witch" <appalachian_witch at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ah5h4v$qdq01$1 at ID-131540.news.dfncis.de...
>
> Bob LeChevalier <lojbab at lojban.org> wrote in message
> news:r0dcju48rkn9rrtcg9385hacfeak7ssf1i at 4ax.com...
> > "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote:
> > >> There are animals with more brain cells than humans have, no?
> > >
> > >Correct.  "no".  None of them.  Even 9 foot apes have brains a quarter
> the
> > >size of human brains.  Dynasaurs had brains the size of an orange.  The
> > >human brain is a quantum leap in size, quality, and output.
> >
> > The human brain is around 1400 grams. Porpoises have brains weighing
> around
> > 1700 grams.
> > http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/Size1.html
> >
> > Elephants and whales have significantly larger brains than humans
> > http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/Size5.html
> > http://brainmuseum.org/Evolution/paleo/
> > http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/animals/whale.html
> > with elephants having brains 3 times the size of humans and sperm whales
> > having brains more than 6 times the size of humans (20 pounds).  Blue
> whales
> > have the largest brains
> >
> > lojbab
>
> "At two, humans have the most brain cells that they will ever have in
their
> lifetime.  If these cells are not used, they are simply deleted."
> http://students.ou.edu/I/Feather.K.Inman-1/concepts.html
>
> "We now know that an infant's brain contains 100 billion cells, the most
> brain cells a person will ever have."
> http://www.nccic.org/pubs/mirrors/intro.html
>
>
> How did infants score on your test, John?  According to your theory, since
> they have more brain cells than either men or women, they should have
scored
> much higher than either category.
>

You could only make such a silly observation if you lacked 3 1/2 billion
brain cells from the start, which is the point:  male babies also have 3 1/2
billion more brain cells than female babies, just as adult males have 3 1/2
billion more than adult females.

The point you missed is that this is proof that the difference is by design
and not because of "discrimination" or some other silly feminazi theory.

> "Women's brains are more tightly packed with cells in the area that
controls
> mental processes such as judgement, personality, planning and working
> memory, researchers have discovered.
> A team from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, found that women have up
> to 15% more brain cell density in certain areas of the frontal lobe, which
> controls so-called higher mental processes. "
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1653000/1653687.stm
>

Is this why men score 18-50% higher than women on ever test ever devised,
across races, nations, and continents, and have since Day One?

> "Women are just as good at math as men. At Earlham, half the math majors
are
> women, and those women include some of our strongest majors. Half the
> students in our elementary classes are women. A survey of recent calculus
> classes showed equal numbers of male and female students. The average
female
> student scored about half a letter grade better than the average male
> student. At the faculty level, half of Earlham's math professors are
women,
> and our female faculty members have published more scholarly papers in
> mathematics than have their male colleagues. To anyone believing that
women
> cannot do well at mathematics - or that men cannot do badly - our
experience
> offers abundant evidence to the contrary."
>
> http://www.math.earlham.edu/WomensBrains.html

Did you even notice that this completely ignores performance? Just because
half the students sitting in a classroom is women is not proof of anything
except their ability to waddle to class and plant their big fat as.es in a
chair.  Just because those teachers give girls a letter grade higher than
they give boys (who score a standard deviation higher than on ALL
*objective* tests), is proof that those teachers are too STUPID to even
detect such huge differences in performance.

Can you even imagine the mentality of a teacher teaching children all her
life, never knowing that all boys across the world, throughout history,
across all races, score a full standard deviation higher than girls in many
subjects?

Why should we even permit such ignorant "teachers" to get anywhere near our
children?

>
> "Neanderthals had larger brains than we do, she pointed out, but obviously
> they weren't smarter."
>

How does she know that?  Did she test Neanderthal?  He left behind some
excellent art, something that not a single nigger in Africa, with very small
brains, were ever able to accomplish.

> "Overall, however, men lose slightly more brain cells than do women"
>
> http://www.csuchico.edu/pub/inside/archive/98_04_09/brain.html
>

Men could lose a billion more brain cells than women and still have an extra
2 1/2 billion to play with--but "slightly more" is most likely nowhere close
to a billion, wouldn't you say?  Why are you quoting these typical
nonsensical feminazi statements?

> "The exact reason for this difference is not known, but the opinion of
> experts is that it is simply related to a larger body size in man (the
more
> cell muscles you have, more brain cells you need). This difference should
> not be interpreted as a difference in intelligence or memory."
>
> http://www.epub.org.br/cm/perguntas/031-how-many-cells.html

This is precisely the absurd, silly, nonsensical, uneducated, ignorant,
illogical "reasoning" we might expect from a 3 1/2 billion brain cell
limited brain--so you know it's not true, don't you?  As already noted above
in your other absurd, silly, nonsensical, uneducated, ignorant, illogical
statement, it takes PRECISELY the same amount of memory, computer power, and
brain cells to operate a human male baby's body as it does to operate an
adult male body.

Don't you ever check your work?

> "At this point, researchers do not know how the structural differences
> influence brain function. It's possible that male and female brains work
at
> a similar capacity but process information differently. For example, one
> study shows that men and women perform equally well in a test that asks
> subjects to read a list of nonsense words and determine if they rhyme.
Yet,
> imaging results found that women use areas on the right and left sides of
> the brain, while men only use areas on the left side to complete the test.

Also note that Wechsler found that men far outperform women on the 94% of
the "IQ problems" which he eliminated from his "IQ test", which is clear
evidence that women perform "equally" to men in only 6% of these problems,
and my bet is that it was something like these "nonsense words".

>       Other research suggests that, on average, the female brain performs
> better on some skills while the male brain executes other tasks at a
higher
> level. For example, tests show that women generally can recall lists of
> words or paragraphs of text better than men. On the other hand, men
usually
> perform better on tests that require the ability to mentally rotate an
image
> in order to solve a problem. Mental rotation is thought to help people
find
> their way, according to researchers. Does that leave the majority of women
> lost? Obviously not. Scientists believe that women may rely on their
memory
> advantage and recall landmarks to find a destination."
>
> http://web.sfn.org/content/Publications/BrainBriefings/gender.brain.html
>
> Have a nice day. Or not. Your choice...
>
> T9W

Which ignores that this difference in construction is precisely why men have
a 42% advantage over women in hand/eye-oriented Olympic events like
springboard, or are one quarter as likely per mile driven to have an auto
accident, or one third as likely per mile flown to have an airplane
accident, or score 18-50% higher on ever standardized test which even
feminazis have managed to create.
http://christianparty.net/olympics.htm

The fact that you're willing to accept this statement carte blanche, without

any statistical evidence to back it up, or even a quantification of some
type to give you perspective, is evidence enough of your ability to be
misled by intentionally misleading and erroneous statements like this.

This is exactly the problem.  This is exactly why so many American girls
went into the TIMSS test with the objective of providing the right answer,
but came out having scored lower on the test than if they had merely guessed
http://christianparty.net/timssphysics.htm

You girls were deceived.  You were deceived by some of the world's best
experts at deception.  And you're obviously just as incapable of recognizing
why or who did it as you are at adequately verifying and carefully
critiquing these above statements, which is exactly how feminist mass
hysteria propagates.

John Knight











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