4.24.2011

The brain: Men vs. Women

It is very common for us to hear people joking about how men and women do certain things. I reckon everyone has already heard someone talking about women's abilities to drive or men's abilities with feelings. What some people don't know is that there is a biological explanation to these differences between men and women: their brains. Although saying it might seem a little sexist, men really tend to be better at math than women. Nevertheless, women tend to be better at language skills. Such facts might be cleared by the fact that men use more of the gray matter in the brain, while women use more of the white. By analyzing the brains we can justify other gender differences, such as spatial abilities and human relationships. Men excel in the first, while women are better in the second. One interesting fact is that these structural differences are not related to inteligence itself, as men and women score the same in intelligence tests. Human evolution developed two different brains to deal with the same situations, so let's not think that one is better than the other, but that they were supposed to be different, and that's what great about human intelligence.

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