bus 9 for the paradise: 'Men cleverer than women' claim ....

bus 9 for the paradise: 'Men cleverer than women' claim ....: "Academics in the UK claim their research shows that men are more intelligent than women. A study to be published later this year in the ..."

'Men cleverer than women' claim ....

Academics in the UK claim their research shows that men are more intelligent than women.

'Men cleverer than women' claim Who will get a first? Academics in the UK claim their research shows that men are more intelligent than women.A study to be published later this year in the British Journal of Psychology says that men are on average five points ahead on IQ tests. Paul Irwing and Professor Richard Lynn claim the difference grows when the highest IQ levels are considered. Their research was based on IQ tests given to 80,000 people and a further study of 20,000 students. 'Widening gap' Dr Irwing, a senior lecturer in organisational psychology at Manchester University, told the Today programme on BBC Radio Four the study showed that, up to the age of 14, there was no difference between the IQs of boys and girls. "But beyond that age and into adulthood there is a difference of five points, which is small but it can have important implications," he said. "This is against a background of women dramatically overtaking men in educational attainment and making very rapid advances in terms of occupational achievement." The academics used a test which is said to measure "general cognitive ability" - spatial and verbal ability. As intelligence scores among the study group rose, the academics say they found a widening gap between the sexes. There were twice as many men with IQ scores of 125, for example, a level said to correspond with people getting first-class degrees. At scores of 155, associated with genius, there were 5.5 men for every woman. Nobel prize-winners Dr Irwing told The Times the differences "may go some way to explaining the greater numbers of men achieving distinctions of various kinds, such as chess grandmasters, Fields medallists for mathematics, Nobel prize-winners and the like". The paper will argue that there is evidence that at the same level of IQ, women are able to achieve more than men "possibly because they are more conscientious and better adapted to sustained periods of hard work". His co-author Richard Lynn's previous work on the genetic and environmental influences on intelligence and race has proved controversial. Prof Lynn, an emeritus professor at the University of Ulster, has argued that people of east Asian origin have higher IQs on average than Europeans, or that those from sub-Saharan Africa have lower IQs than African Americans. Earlier this year, the president of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers, sparked controversy when he suggested at a seminar that one reason men outperformed women in maths and science was genetics. Several guests walked out of the conference after hearing the comments. Dr Summers, who has apologised repeatedly for his remarks, said later that the shortage of senior female academics was partly caused by child-minding duties, which restricted working hours. Your comments My reaction, coming from a family with a tradition of women who achieve very highly in maths and sciences, is weary disgust. Yet again, what is intelligence? Who is defining it? Have these researchers looked at IQ levels below the average, at gender differentials among prison inmates? Let's have these included for balance, please. Julia Blincoe, Southampton, England All this discussion is fairly irrelevant. Men and women have different and also some similar skills but we are all genetically programmed for survival, together. Basically we need teamwork and to be able to work to each other's strengths and minimise our collective weaknesses in order to make any progress in future. Divisive talk about who is better than who is pointless and smacks of political correctness. I do not believe, on average, that men are more intelligent than women. I'm convinced we often find more men at the extremes like in academia or indeed in the work place simply because we still live in a male-driven society. Women think differently from men, that I do agree with, but more intelligent? From my 'empirical analysis' I find this unlikely. Jason Robinson, Cambridge

What does “go clean your home” mean to a young child ?

When you tell your children to go and clean their bedroom, what does that mean to them?  It could mean hiding all their clothing, toys and trash under the bed.  It could mean tossing and hiding all their trash and toys in the closet and then closing the closet door.  Your child would say, “Okay mom/dad, I am done with my room.” You would say, “Wow, how could they have cleaned their room that fast?”  The fact of the matter is that you (mom and dad) must define what you mean when asking your child to clean their room.

Here are some helpful tips that I used with my children:

Key point: make sure you take your child’s age into consideration.  You are not going to tell a four-year-old to do their laundry.  The chores should be age appropriate.

• Start with a mini contract.  Make sure that it is in writing.
• Start with a short list of chores and then gradually increase the list as your children age.
• Get the children involved in putting the contract together.
• Make sure that you have rewards and consequences included in the contract.
• Make sure that you (mom and dad) are consistent with the rewards and consequences.

I would love to hear, IN MY  BLOG , some of your parenting tips used in getting your children to do their chores around the house.

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Photography Timeline

The Art of Photography - Timeline of Photography, Film, and Cameras.

•5th-4th Centuries B.C.
Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera.

•1664-1666

Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors.
•1727
Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.
•1794
First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker.
•1814
Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.
•1837
Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.
•1840
First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
•1841

William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.

•1843
First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia.
•1851
Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure..
•1859
Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton.
•1861
Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.
•1865
Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright.
•1871
Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.
•1880
Eastman Dry Plate Company founded.
•1884
George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.
•1888
Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.

•1898

Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
•1900
First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie.
•1913/1914
First 35mm still camera developed.
•1927
General Electric invents the modern flash bulb
•1932
First light meter with photoelectric cell introduced.
•1935
Eastman Kodak markets Kodachrome film.
•1941
Eastman Kodak introduces Kodacolor negative film.
•1942
Chester Carlson receives patent for electric photography (xerography).
•1948

Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera.

•1954

Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film.
•1960
EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.
•1963
Polaroid introduces instant color film.
•1968
Photograph of the Earth from the moon.
•1973
Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera.
•1977
George Eastman and Edwin Land inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
•1978
Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.
•1980
Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder.
•1984
Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.
•1985
Pixar introduces digital imaging processor.
•1990
Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.

 

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