I don't feel, on principle, opposed to the idea that women are less intelligent than men. It seems unlikely this is true, but I don't think the question is bad to ask. The real issue is why are you so afraid of the possibility that someone is an IQ point or two lower than you?
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To steelman this, I think the problem is that such a difference is then used to justify a bunch of more stupid attitudes and problems that arise when you give people a reason to claim superior intelligence over someone else when it still doesn't really matter in reality
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But that's not a good reason to not come to true conclusions. There's lots of true things that people use in stupid arguments, that just means we need to combat the stupid arguments, it doesn't mean we need to avoid thinking about the true thing!
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If you say that women are 1 to 2 points lower in IQ, which is trivial - I would chalk it up more to the problem solving skills women are taught, You are a mixture of self taught and some collegiate but you were also taught early on to heavily rely on men, your skills reflect that
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It reveals a hidden 'cognitive elitism' in people. Many *do* feel superior to others because of their IQ, so any proposition that says that a) their IQ is largely inherited and not "of their own doing" b) other groups might have more than them is rejected for ego-preservation.
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This is the NUMBER ONE issue I have with the IQ debate. Anytime someone says "oh, so they have higher IQ, so they're superior ...". THAT IS NOT what that means. Being smarter doesn't mean you're superior. God that annoys me.
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it feels to me exactly like beauty discourse no, not everyone is beautiful, and it's unhealthy to think of personal beauty as something so necessary to human flourishing that we cant admit it
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The problem is that research in IQ or idea ideas of 'generalized intelligence' is frowned upon if not proscribed. No one dares touch it because racism.
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