Girls lack general knowledge?

Well short term memory is very debatable as it may last as long as a week or a bit longer (basic revision being the prime example).
As for conversing with guys and girls, I always give everyone an equal chance, however more often then not I have found girls to be less informed and lacking general knowledge.

As for the girl and the 9/11 post, I did not post the full conversation to save her the embarrassment of looking a little silly. But in the conversation, lets just say there where many 'maybe's, I dunno' from her.

I thought there was a paragraph talking about how the differences in questions could have made a difference, saying that women score higher in certain sections, and men score higher in others.

This is true. It says that women score higher in "culture"-related questions and in "health"-related questions, for instance. However, if we average over all fields that has been asked, it is found that women answer less questions correctly than men. Most importantly, in those questions which may be considered important for a functioning democracy women do not do well.

However, personally, I feel that arguing about whether this is the case or not is unbelievably uninteresting. It would be much more interesting to look into the determinants of this pattern (or whether this is also true in other countries than Germany). But here it seems a battle of the sexes is played instead. A pity, in my opinion, since such a discussion could actually yield interesting insights, i.e. more elaborate explanations for such statistical findings.

Well the girl from TSR was really the icing on the cake as only a day or two before that some girls I knew did not know where Austria, Alaska, Vietnam, Greece or pretty much any country was, and a few weeks prior some girl and her friend has no idea about pretty much anything, I quote " I'm not good at reading proper clocks"......That's right, proper clocks.

(a generalisation of course)

And since all generalisations ignore diversity, variations and have nothing to do with the truth they must be not be made in the first place.

Yup! thats it, made up my mind that you sir are the stereotypical man of the 18th/19th century. Do you really believe that because of your impressions on them, all other girls are equally the same? I must warn you that you are in for a shocker when you speak to academically motivated women, mostly found at universities etc

I'm sorry, but I can say with absolute confidence that you are definitely wrong. That's why patients who lose their ability to transfer short term memories into long term ones for any reason are unable to remember anything for more than approximately seven seconds.

Information passed into the long term memory can sometimes be lost after a short period like a week because, whilst it is capable of holding information for a lifetime, it doesn't always hold information for a long time if it hasn't been encoded securely enough.

It certainly isn't "debatable".

We could argue about this all day, but the fact is you can't make a statement about an entire population purely based on your encounters and a few studies you've found on the internet. Everyone knows that studies of this kind do not prove things, they offer support for things. That's why it takes loads of studies by different researchers on the same subject for something to become an accepted theory.

Absurd claim. Absolute rot.

General knowledge can be elicited through simply living the life. Absorbed through even from the trivial, menial, mundane things we must complete in our lives. From this fact, we can make the deduction that the average male or female incompetent (and note, I say incompetent, as the folk who are not knowledge-driven have only their journey through life to garner such knowledge, which is, as I said, trivial-- general...) will know precisely the same amount, be it large or miniscule.

Now, to consider the educated amongst us. That's different. The educated have a much higher yearning for facts, literature, philosophy, and the pursuit of education itself. Albeit, in varying degrees... though it is safe to say that the educated person will have a much larger vessel of knowledge to fish in, than that of the layman.

It's impossible to deduce, at least in terms of people of high, or extraordinarily high intelligence-- who is the cleverer bloke or woman. There are smart men; there are smart women. Just as there are considerably smarter men, and considerably smarter women.

However, we can argue that experience, whether self-enacted or inspired (or insisted upon, maybe) that knowledge from such experiences will indeed take grasp of a broader scope of learnedness, as opposed to the average man or woman sitting on their backside, watching soap-operas and listening to uninspiring examples of pop-culture.

"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." - Da Vinci

Pointless thread is pointless.

Go read the proof genius.

Go read the proof genius.




Yet some of these women at uni do not know where Austria is, what the Vietnam war was etc. Again, learn to read the proof.



This has what to do with the question at hand again?




Pro-tip : Finish reading the OP as it is not so much a claim as it is a very possible fact.

The 'proof' is:

a, In German.
b, From a ****ing magazine which no one has ever heard of.
c, from an author whose credentials are not mentioned. its just a name.

That is not proof. That is bull ****.

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Ah bless, learn to use Chrome which auto translates.
It is also amazing how if you can't read it you have come to those conclusions because:
- the research was done by a creditable Professor and the paper was published

Some credible professors also say that Global warming is a myth and that 9/11 was an inside job.

This has what to do with the question at hand again?

The 'proof' is:

a, In German.
b, From a ****ing magazine which no one has ever heard of.
c, from an author whose credentials are not mentioned. its just a name.

That is not proof. That is bull ****.

I'm just displaying the lack of general knowledge that you, a guy, possess outside of world war two and 9/11.

It would seem your general knowledge is rather specific.

:O

Not really, especially when we look at the degree you are doing.......