MEN ARE SMARTER THAN WOMEN BECAUSE THEIR BRAINS ARE BIGGER

1. MEN ARE SMARTER THAN WOMEN BECAUSE THEIR BRAINS ARE BIGGER By: Scott Thomas & Kaytie Casanova Female Brain Male Brain

2. The parts of the brain: • The brain is separated into 2 hemispheres and into four main lobes. • Frontal: which lie directly behind the forehead • Parietal: two sections behind the frontal lobes • Occipital: process images from the eyes and link that information with images stored in memory • Temporal: lie in front of the visual areas and nest under the parietal and frontal lobes • Your body is controlled by the opposite side of your brain. For example your left hemisphere controls the right side of your body

4. Differences within the brain: • The sexes are different because the brains are different. • The functional difference is that more blood flows to the right side of males brains, and females brains produce more blood flow to the left.

6. History: • Simple measurements of the brain proved that women lacked necessary cerebral endowment to claim an equality of intellect. • A hundred years ago it was discovered that the male brain was 10% larger physically and because of this men thought they were automatically smarter. • Bayerthall (1911) found it a minimum requirement for a professor of surgery to have a head circumference of 52-53 cms. • They also considered measurements 50.5 cms or less to have no normal intelligence • “We do not have to ask for the head circumference of women of genius – they do not exist.”

7. History continued: • The first systematic test to explore sex differences were conducted in 1882 by Francis Gatton at South Kensington Museum in London • Men: possessed strength and the ability to work under pressure • Women: were sensitive to pain due to being very in touch with their emotions • U.S. studies 10 years later found… • Men: prefer red to blue, use adventurous vocabulary, prefer abstract to general thought. • Women: prefer blue to red, hear better, use conventional vocabulary, practical thought, and individual tasks.

8. Spatial Ability: MALES • McFarlane Smith 1964 defined spatial ability as “the perception, retention, and recognition of a figure pattern in its correct proportion.” • Males tend to have more development in certain areas of the right hemisphere, which provides them with better spatial abilities such as • Measuring • Mechanical design • Geography • Mapping

9. Verbal Ability: FEMALES • Since women have an increased blood flow to the left side of their brain and also because of the fact that their corpus collosum, the bundle of nerves that connects the right and left hemispheres, is 20% larger they have a stronger verbal understanding of language, phonemics, and sensory information in verbal tasks. • McCarthy in 1930 found that girls as young as four years old respond in great detail and more intelligently than boys. • Another study done by Kagan in 1969 showed that girls vocalized more excitement in verbal tasks. • Therefore these studies prove that women are on a whole better at communication of language.

10. Conclusion: • By general consensus, no sex differences and overall mental ability has been established. • However a more appropriate claim is that men and women use different cognitive styles to approach problem solving tasks and because of the brain structure males are better at spatial tasks and women are better at verbal • Because of our research we were able to determine that there was in fact no correlation between brain size and intelligence level.

11. Final Thought: • The way our brains are made affects how we think, learn, see smell, feel, communicate, love, make love, fight, succeed, or fail. • The size of our brain doesn’t!