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Orbax
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MrJiveBoJingles
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I think that a lack of moderation, a tendency toward extremism, is more common among men than women.
Men are more numerous than women at both extremes of IQ (130+ IQ and retarded), more likely to murder many, many people, more likely to die for fanatical causes, and do all sorts of other awful, extreme things.
My hypothesis is that they are also more likely to become obsessively, single-mindedly driven toward a goal, which is often a prerequisite for getting to the "top" of a field.
One could make a silly, pat sociobiological argument that it generally doesn't "pay," evolutionarily, for women to be obsessed about anything other than beautifying themselves and raising their children, and so they have in general inherited a tendency to do just that. But sociobiology consists mostly of "just-so" stories that any person of reasonable intelligence could think up in their spare time. Not anything conclusive there, at least that I've seen. It could be biological, social, or both.
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| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
A think that a lack of moderation, a tendency toward extremism, is more common among men than women.
Men are more numerous than women at both extremes of IQ (130+ IQ and retarded), more likely to murder many, many people, more likely to die for fanatical causes, and do all sorts of other awful, extreme things.
My hypothesis is that they are also more likely to become obsessively, single-mindedly driven toward a goal, which is often a prerequisite for getting to the "top" of a field.
One could make a silly, pat sociobiological argument that it generally doesn't "pay," evolutionarily, for women to be obsessed about anything other than beautifying themselves and raising their children, and so they have in general inherited a tendency to do just that. But sociobiology consists mostly of "just-so" stories that any person of reasonable intelligence could think up in their spare time. Not anything conclusive there, at least that I've seen. It could be biological, social, or both. |
good points. I wasn't aware that men had higher ratios of both geniuses and retards. Thats very interesting.
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Jul-20-2007 04:46
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kr00t0n
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Jul-20-2007 06:08
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