1st Speaker of the Affirmative Side; Proposition: Men are more intelligent than women.

Ladies and Gentlemen, a blessed afternoon!

Hundreds of years already passed but the issues concerning the

intelligence of men and women continues to be heated. Every passing year,
thousands and thousands of pages are written to clarify our understanding of
the intellectual capabilities of men and women. Before discussing how and why,
we ought to explain what psychologists mean by intelligence; its made up of a
range of cognitive abilities that include reasoning, problem solving, spatial
ability, general knowledge and memory. We, on the affirmative side of the
proposition, Men are more intelligent than women firmly believe that men are
indeed more intelligent than women based on the following grounds.

First, it was discovered that there exists a general factor which powers
all mental abilities. This general factor is called general mental ability. At its
core, it can be thought of as brain poweran individuals capacity to process
information efficiently. It so happens that general mental ability is the single
best predictor of how an individual performs in life at large. In a study accepted
for publication by the British Journal of Psychology, Dr. Paul Irwing
(Manchester Business School, Senior Lecturer in Organizational Psychology) and
Prof. Richard Lynn (University of Ulster, Professor Emeritus) conclude that men
are on average five points ahead on IQ tests. The study also found 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. The male variance in IQ is greater than that for
females; Arthur Jensen says this difference is greatest in math and spatial
ability. In math the male variance is 1.1 to 1.3 times greater. In the high range,
at or above the 98th percentile there are about twice more males than females,
while at or above the 99.9th percentile there are about 15 times more males.
Temporal Processingperception of timeis another measure that correlates
with general mental ability. From milliseconds, to seconds, to minutes, men
perceive time more accurately than women do. A more efficient neurological
clock reflects faster updating of mental representation cycles in men, buffing

everything from psychomotor ability (e.g. control precision), to visual processing

(e.g. tracking) and, of course, auditory processing.

Second, it can be inferred that the brains structure is an expression of

its function. It is synonymous that bigger brain size means greater mental
capacity. On average, men have bigger brain size than women at about 10-12%.
Thus, men with their larger brains have higher general mental ability. Absolute
brain size is thus properly understood as a proxy for the brains organizational
complexity. It follows that mens larger brains are packed with 19% more
neocortical neurons for processing, 16% more white matter for connectivity and
28% more neocortical glia to keep up with energy costs. Although women had a
higher ratio of grey matter to white matter than men, men had 6.5 times as
much grey matter in intelligence-related areas. Putting this all together: larger
brains are more modular, more lateralized and consequently, optimised for
intra-hemispheric connectivity. The end result is a substantial enhancement to
parallel processing which leads to a systematic increase in cognitive capacity.
Lastly, Language processing is represented bilaterally in women, but is
left lateralized in men. This necessitates a reliance on inter-hemispheric
connectivity in women for processing language, resulting in slower performance
and lower verbal intelligence. The intra-hemispheric configuration in men
prevents this kind of traffic jam. Furthermore, visuospatial ability is a unified
trait in men they are able to integrate complex mental images in a bottom-up,
automatic and holistic fashion. For women, visuospatial ability is a diffused
traitthey put together mental images in a top-down, forced and piecemeal
fashion. Thus, visuospatial ability is more of a talent in men and a learned skill
for women. Consequently, the more complex the task, the more apparent the
male advantage.

With the arguments presented, we firmly stand by our contentions that

men are indeed more intelligent than women. Thank you!

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