Men are more intelligent than women, claims new study

This week’s article I read is titled “Men are more intelligent than women, claims new study” by Ben Clerkin and Fiona Macrae. Here is the link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-405056/Men-intelligent-women-claims-new-study.html

The article mostly talks about how a recent (recent at that time, 2006) study demonstrated that men have higher IQs than women. Scientists have been doing experiments on men and women to see who had better thinking abilities. Soon, the result demonstrated that men had higher IQ averages than women’s averages.

Although I have been aware of the small fights between men and women, I have not realized that those small fights would include somewhat very childlike topics. It was also funny that I got a tingle of anger while reading this article and the article really bothered me. The article seemed personally unnecessary because these types of articles are the ones that create this gender difference. The article is made very public in which everyone can have access. These articles have higher chances of influencing people’s thinking and views on this matter. For example, a man who did not have any issue regarding gender might read this article and feel a sense of superiority over women (this example might be extreme). I think that articles with intentions of being publicized should not write such articles like this. Hence, the media has crucially influenced many of the gender norms and the media should think twice before posting a article that might trigger negative response from any gender.