Dr Paul Irwing claims that men are more intelligent than women
... oh no he doesn't!
Some journalistic license in this phrase perhaps?
The original article is here:
http://education.independent.co.uk/higher/article2024763.ece
What he actually says is:
"There are twice as many men as women with an IQ of 120-plus."
Despite conforming to Dr Irwing's stereotype of IQ test misunderstanders, I would like to rephrase his quote above.
"There are twice as many men as women who score over 120 in an IQ test."
This later paragraph makes me want to scream.
"Girls often do better than boys at school. There has to be some female compensating factor, most importantly the ability to process speech sounds, which means women read faster and more accurately and have an advantage in basic writing tasks. And women work harder than men and are more conscientious so they do things technic-ally correctly. Men are often quite original but deficient in what is technically demanded."
So wait a minute, a psychology lecturer at a university with an international reputation says a test devised by his subject produces results inconsistent with the outcomes experienced and perceived by a significant proportion of the "test subjects".
But still fails to question his much-studied test?
I think the demonstrably very "intelligent" Dr Richard Feynman sussed this paradox years ago.
http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/science.html
The pseudo-science of psychology rates its accuracy well beyond its capacity to accurately predict human performance or behavior. Personally, and I can in no way prove this, I think the presumption that humans can devise tests to measure the future behavior and performance of humans is the logical flaw that undermines the foundations of behavioral psychology and make the applied subject into little more valuable than a cargo cult.
Who ever passed an exam with 30% correct answers - answer, the psychology lab test result!
Some journalistic license in this phrase perhaps?
The original article is here:
http://education.independent.co.uk/higher/article2024763.ece
What he actually says is:
"There are twice as many men as women with an IQ of 120-plus."
Despite conforming to Dr Irwing's stereotype of IQ test misunderstanders, I would like to rephrase his quote above.
"There are twice as many men as women who score over 120 in an IQ test."
This later paragraph makes me want to scream.
"Girls often do better than boys at school. There has to be some female compensating factor, most importantly the ability to process speech sounds, which means women read faster and more accurately and have an advantage in basic writing tasks. And women work harder than men and are more conscientious so they do things technic-ally correctly. Men are often quite original but deficient in what is technically demanded."
So wait a minute, a psychology lecturer at a university with an international reputation says a test devised by his subject produces results inconsistent with the outcomes experienced and perceived by a significant proportion of the "test subjects".
But still fails to question his much-studied test?
I think the demonstrably very "intelligent" Dr Richard Feynman sussed this paradox years ago.
http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/science.html
The pseudo-science of psychology rates its accuracy well beyond its capacity to accurately predict human performance or behavior. Personally, and I can in no way prove this, I think the presumption that humans can devise tests to measure the future behavior and performance of humans is the logical flaw that undermines the foundations of behavioral psychology and make the applied subject into little more valuable than a cargo cult.
Who ever passed an exam with 30% correct answers - answer, the psychology lab test result!
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