It proves your ability to learn... some people just can't learn as well as others... There are somethings in life that you can just look at and say..." yer I get that.." other times you have to study... everyone is born blank.. and have the option to learn anything they want... Dumb people are the ones to lazy to learn.. Smart people are the ones who always want to know more... Colleges want to know your a smart one who wants to learn....
Originally posted by Hit_and_Miss
Colleges want to know your a smart one who wants to learn....
I disagree with this on so many levels.
Its not the brains that make the good grades.
I was considered the smartest of my school and had a "C" average for 3 years.
Why?
Because I didn't give a damn, but some people study, study, and study, until they get that grade, be it for discipline, ethics, or self criticism.
If you are the smartest person in the world, but don't do your work you still get an "f".
So its good study habits, and for the record, the really smart hate school.
School isn't the only place to learn.
I daresay I learned most of my stuff OUT of school.
Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
How odd, I was just watching a program about this very subject. I can't actually recall what the show was, which kind of answers the question posed, but it was about genius children. The show examined children who seem to have been born with inate abilities, such as a proclivity for math and science, or gifts for understanding and producing music, playing the piano at age five, etc. And on the whole, these kids were males more often than females.I don't think, however, that means that men are more intelligent than women, or have any more or less capacity to learn or apply that knowledge. Also, I think that the inequities in the roles of the two genders in society has lent itself to more men being discovered with the special gifts the show mentioned.
One interesting thing I did notice during teh show, was that a lot of these child prodigies were first generation Americans. Their parents were, more often than not, immigrants.
That is interesting, I've also read some studies that had to do with health and diseases that aren't as prevalent in first generation Americans......Kinda gets one thinking.....Maybe goes hand and hand...
Originally posted by Hit_and_Miss
It proves your ability to learn... some people just can't learn as well as others... There are somethings in life that you can just look at and say..." yer I get that.." other times you have to study... everyone is born blank.. and have the option to learn anything they want... Dumb people are the ones to lazy to learn.. Smart people are the ones who always want to know more... Colleges want to know your a smart one who wants to learn....
Uhh, wrong. There are plenty of smart people who simply couldn't care less and plenty of dumb people who work hard to learn more. I'm like C-Master, I was easily one of the smartest students in my grade all through high school, I got the 3rd highest score in my class on the ACT (of 303 people), consistently scored in the 97th-99th percentile on EVERY standardized test I've ever taken...yet I never did my homework anymore than half the time, because I simply didn't care. I didn't need to work to learn anything (not even in my German class, in which I wound up being the only person to pass the AP test). If not for AP classes, I'd have only had a C+ average, but the weight added by AP classes meant I wound up with a B average by the time I graduated. But I HATED having to do homework and such -- because I found it to be tiresome and a waste of my time. I even flat-out told one of my math teachers that I refused to do my homework one night because I found it to be busywork. Which it was, it was something I had learned when I was in 6th grade and could do in my head without even thinking.
But anyway, my point is, most of the time when someone doesn't care about school, chances are they're actually very smart and just find all the work put into learning something tiresome. And the people to whom learning things doesn't come so easily, tend to spend more time on their work and care more.
Originally posted by Lana
Because I didn't NEED to put any work into anything in high school -- it was all very easy for me.
But you had a C average? If your really as smart as you claim it wouldnt be that hard for you to get straight A's with a bit more effort into your work, and from there you could get into schools like harvard and yale.
Originally posted by xmarksthespot😆 what are you fu.cking kidding me....i can't see men as the smarter gender, their decisions and opinions are drove by their penises...my opinion 🙂
[b]Is this a clever thing to say about women's IQ?
By Tony Halpin, Education Editor, The TimesHALF the population will dismiss this story, but a study claims that the cleverest people are much more likely to be men than women.
Men are more intelligent than women by about five IQ points on average, making them better suited for "tasks of high complexity", according to the authors of a paper due to be published in the British Journal of Psychology.
Genetic differences in intelligence between the sexes helped to explain why many more men than women won Nobel Prizes or became chess grandmasters, the study by Paul Irwing and Professor Richard Lynn concluded.
They showed that men outnumbered women in increasing numbers as intelligence levels rise. There were twice as many with IQ scores of 125, a level typical for people with first-class degrees.
When scores rose to 155, a level associated with genius, there were 5.5 men for every woman.
Dr Irwing, a senior lecturer in organisational psychology at Manchester University, said that he was uncomfortable with the findings. But he added that the evidence was clear despite the insistence of many academics that there were "no meaningful sex differences" in levels of intelligence.
"For personal reasons I would like to believe that men and women are equal, and broadly that's true. But over a period of time the evidence in favour of biological factors has become stronger and stronger," he said.
"I have been dragged in a direction that I don't particularly like, but it would be sensible if the debate was based on what we pretty much know to be the case."
The findings from the study involving 24,000 students will intensify a battle of the sexes that was triggered last week by Michael Buerk, the BBC newscaster, who complained that "life is now being lived according to women's rules". He said that men had been reduced to little more than sperm-donors because of the female dominance of society.
Professor Lynn, a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster, is no stranger to inflammatory conclusions as the author of a number of publications arguing that there are differences in intelligence between racial groups.
He published a controversial study in 2003 that identified a clear correlation between the levels of prosperity in 60 countries and the average IQ of their populations.
Professor Lynn argued in a letter to The Psychologist this month that the differences between the sexes were explained by a link between IQ and brain size. He said: "Men have larger brains than women by about 10 per cent and larger brains confer greater brain power, so men must necessarily be on average more intelligent than women."
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I'm interested to hear whether people (particularly women) agree or disagree with this study, and whether people think these findings are plausible? [/B]
Originally posted by Great Vengeance
But you had a C average? If your really as smart as you claim it wouldnt be that hard for you to get straight A's with a bit more effort into your work, and from there you could get into schools like harvard and yale.
1) I didn't WANT to go to a school like Harvard or Yale; I didn't want to go somewhere where people think they're better than everyone else because they're at a prestigious school.
2) I didn't NEED to do the work 99% of the time, so I didn't feel like wasting my time when I could have spent it doing other things that meant more to me.
Originally posted by Lana
1) I didn't WANT to go to a school like Harvard or Yale; I didn't want to go somewhere where people think they're better than everyone else because they're at a prestigious school.2) I didn't NEED to do the work 99% of the time, so I didn't feel like wasting my time when I could have spent it doing other things that meant more to me.
Your not getting my point, I understand If you felt like school wasnt important because it isnt, atleast for the gifted, but If you are gifted you can use school to your advantage to get into a prestigous school which in turn means a whole life of ease and comfort. If you dont want this fine with me, Im just giving you my recommendation.
Originally posted by Great Vengeance
Your not getting my point, I understand If you felt like school wasnt important because it isnt, atleast for the gifted, but If you are gifted you can use school to your advantage to get into a prestigous school which in turn means a whole life of ease and comfort. If you dont want this fine with me, Im just giving you my recommendation.
I got your point just fine. I just didn't chose to do things that way, I could have, but I didn't want to.
Besides which, considering the amount of time I'll be in school (planning on going for my masters at the least, possibly a doctorate), in the end where I got my bachelors isn't going to matter so much.