Girls lack general knowledge?

Does it matter if they don't? Are people too silly to accept that others are different from them?

You just worry for someone who doesn't even know things like who the prime minister is. And when you're half way through your 20th Century Germany history course and someone asks who Hitler is, it makes you start to despair.

They can be as different from me as they like but I don't want to have conversations with people that stupid.

then don't. why have conversations with people you don't get on with?

As I'm sure you know, since you stated that you go to a good university, one paper is not enough; there is probably one somewhere which says exactly the opposite. I wouldn't describe the question as being "open ended" and the way you phrased it made it sound very biased. Also, I'm sure that you know from writing essays that you never references newspaper articles if you want to be taken seriously, and should instead go for the original paper (even on TSR, since someone will try and pick you apart somehow anyway). Admittedly I'm rubbish at that sort of thing because I can't be bothered, but a quick google search shows that you might have been better off using this as "proof": http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W4M-44N3M18-2&_user=10&_coverDate=02/28/2002&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1579003368&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=bdec56bcaf2ea4de35db137554c343a6&searchtype=a
But even then, you're unlikely to win friends since the way you write makes you comes across as sexist and biased.
Good day.

tbh, I don't know what the point of your replies are. All I was stating in my first post was that I knew plenty of girls without any general knowledge. It's not like I stated an opinion in that post.

My opinion is that this thread is *******s, and that the he and you are dim to even worry about what others know and don't know.

The thing is, not many papers will be done on this topic for a few good reasons and the only people who will pursue this research will be due to their own interest.
The explanation for this is quite simple. Who wants to fund someone to prove that women have a lower general knowledge as this would only brand them as sexist, even in the face of conclusive results (as this thread has shown), and secondly, what is to be gained from saying women have a lower general knowledge? This is why I just went for that article referencing the paper, but yes, I do see your point and even though I do not mean to be biased, I do have a tenancy to come across that way.

It was merely an observation. Which I balanced out by stating that I knew many boys with an equal lack of general knowledge.

If we need to stop worrying about what others know and don't know, then all the wannabe teachers on here should stop bothering. It is something that does need worrying about. What does it say about the state of our society if people don't even know simple things?