Gender, Height, And IQ

[Bobcat Fraser]

A recent study claims that women's IQs have surpassed men's IQs for the first time in a hundred years. The study's subjects live in varied modern countries. Canada and the USA are included. James Flynn believes that multitasking might have contributed to the increase.
Link To The Story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...titasking.html

A blogger on Psychology Today claims that women always had higher IQs, but tests never revealed this because the ordinary man is taller than the ordinary woman. IOW, it's height, rather than gender, that accounts for the slight IQ disparity between the sexes. He believes that 5'4 women are smarter than 5'4 men and that 5'10 women are smarter than 5'10 men. Of course, his theory would posit that taller women are smarter than both shorter men and shorter women.
Link To The Blog:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...elligent-women

What do you all think? I don't think that gender plays that much of a role in IQ. It all comes down to the individual, of course. The common knowledge and conventional wisdom is that males tend to have higher spatial IQs while females tend to have higher verbal IQs. That probably is true, but there are a lot of exceptions to that rule. From my experience in school, the best students of both genders excelled in the "boys' subjects", as well as the "girls' subjects". As far as the height thing, it was my understanding that the gender IQ disparity had more to do with brain size and brain structure. It's doubtful that runway models are all that much smarter than male jockeys.

[Stefan]

A blogger on Psychology Today claims that women always had higher IQs, but tests never revealed this because the ordinary man is taller than the ordinary woman. IOW, it's height, rather than gender, that accounts for the slight IQ disparity between the sexes. He believes that 5'4 women are smarter than 5'4 men and that 5'10 women are smarter than 5'10 men. Of course, his theory would posit that taller women are smarter than both shorter men and shorter women.

I find this to be a paradox with what I've observed in the real world. The smartest people in my high school were short. The valedictorian was only a girl of 4ft 10 in. The salutatorian was only a girl of 5 feet. I had the third highest S.A.T scores in my school, and my height is only 5ft 6in. The highest S.A.T scores go to males of 5ft 8in - 5ft 10in. From what I've read it is pretty much widely accepted that intelligence is mostly a ratio of brain mass vs. body mass. This is because of the enormous energy requirements of the brain. Other factors include how particular neural pathways are structured, and the efficiency of particular brain tissues. It's possibly there is a correlation between intelligence and height, caused by some linked genes, however I doubt there is a high enough correlation to consider such a phenomenon as a rule rather than a matter of variation.

[CelticViking]

Iq test- 180
Height- 6'2-6'3

[MarkyMark]

Iq test- 180
Height- 6'2-6'3

[Skrondsze]

Iq test- 180
Height- 6'2-6'3

Lol, RLY?

[Skrondsze]

haha we quoted at the same time but about different lines of her post.

[Bronze]

Is height really associated with IQ? ive seen some articles about it but i dont think it was ever confirmed as more than a theory.

[Drawing-live]

I thought the oppossite.
Smaller people i thought would be smarter and healthier on everage.
Isnt that why they portray alliens very small and far more intelligent in movies!?

[Panopticon]

There is a correlation between height and IQ. However, it's not very large, just a few points in IQ. Satoshi Kanazawa is completely wrong though. Men are by default taller than women and will due to sexual dymorphism always be taller on average.

But the height-IQ correlation only works in comparison to same gender. A woman that is 5'10 will be smarter than a 5'10 man, but one also has to realize that 5'10 for a woman is the equal of being a 6'2-6'3 man. Therefore, it's unfair to compare someone who is taller than the average for their gender against someone who is just about average for ones own gender and therefore would also, most likely, be average in IQ. A 5'10 woman is therefore also not going to be smarter than a 6'2-6'3 man, because they are just as tall in comparison to the mean heights of their genders.

Satoshi Kanazawa doesn't take that in account, if his ideas were true, then women would have surpassed men in IQ and in height, and that's not happening, men are still 10-14 cm taller than women on average.

I'm not so sure if it's correct though. Men are vastly outnumbering women in sciences, business, politics, music and arts, etc., and always have done so, and their contributions in those areas are also often much larger on the individual level. This is also despite the push of society for women to succeed (along with the lack of that for men) and the gender quotas and other legislations that gives women benefits. However, the IQ of women is much more stable, the IQ of men is much less stable. The IQ of men deviates more and there are therefore more male retards and more male geniuses, while there are less female retards and less female geniuses.

I think this article written by Dr. Richard Lynn himself is good. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...hard-Lynn.html

Iq test- 180
Height- 6'2-6'3

Are you by any chance a member of Mega Society? With an IQ like that, you should be, if not part of Mega Society, then at least some other high IQ society, and not just Mensa, but some really elitist high IQ society.

[Pallantides]

IQ - 112(officially tested and evaluated)
Height - 1.82m
Gender - Male