Quote from adrenalineflashThe thing is that, no matter how well you do in school, you can still be unintelligent. Women just tend to do better academically. That doesn't mean they are intelligent, they just know how to do well IN SCHOOL.
Based on what? Your own biased observations? That argument isn't valid until you first prove that women do better academically, then we can debate on whether that makes them "smarter" or if intelligence can be defined by something other than a GPA.
This whole thread is one giant generalization.
[SIZE="5"]IT DEPENDS ON THE INDIVIDUAL PERSON.[/SIZE]
Men can't generally be smarter than women, or vice versa. It depends on the INDIVIDUAL. I know many (certainly not all) of you stickpagians can only think in generalized and stereotyped groups, and forget that when you say "women" you are referring to billions of different people, all with different personalities, jobs, lives, etc. Except for chest size and a lack of a bulge in the pants, women have no defining trait that links every single one of them together. One individual man may be smarter than one woman, but not as smart as the next.
And of course, there is also the issue of how you define and measure the vague term of intelligence. Dictionary.com had this definition:
capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
Of course though, it's hard to measure everything from reasoning to grasping facts in one scale. Many of the savants in the world can remember zip codes across the US, memorize thousands of digits in pi, and other extraordinary feats that can be classified as intelligence, but cannot even brush their teeth in the morning. Do they classify as more or less intelligent than your average person? For this is where the true debate winds down to. How you define and measure intelligence.