Talk:Men Are Exceptional

Biologically males tend to vary more in characteristics more than females in any species where females invest significantly more in reproduction than males do. This includes the human species. The title of this article is a pun. While it looks like it is saying that men are amazing, it is actually talking about how men vary more in characteristics

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It should be obvious to everyone today that women perform wide vaiety of paid employment competently. This is not new with women having participated in the workforce of a community throughout history. The idea that women were forced to stay home and cook and clean through the ages until a recent emancipation just does not stand up to even a cursory review of the range of human societies that have existed through time. Most women, however, tend to choose work that is clean and safe. Most women are clustered near the middle of society - most in safe and moderatelty well paying employment. Relatively few women are homeless and outcasts from society, and few are making radical achievements that will fundamentally change the state of human affairs.

The world needs men. Human civilisation needs men. Many areas of employment are overwhelmingly performed by men. Despite high levels of youth unemployment around the world young women are not even trying to work in these areas. Perhaps most women could do these jobs but we can't know, given that most of them won't even try.

When men do experience hard times they are far less likely to receive assistance from the community or the state.

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The human species tends to show low sexual dimorphism compared to many other species. This means that while there are fundamental differences they are far out weighed by the similarities.

The apparent contradiction between the proceeding concepts can be explained if we accept that humans are essentially programmed to recognise sexual differences within our own species. We see males and females and easily notice the differences. When researchers have compared human sexual dimorphism to other species it has been shown than human sexual dimorphism is lower than a large proportion of species. The existing gender differences do reflect in differences in behaviour and life outcomes however.

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Of course there are other differences between men and women and they do contribute to observed behaviours and life outcomes. Men are more likely to engage in risky behaviour. This is one of the reasons that men have a lower life expectancy around the world.

Gender and Intelligence

 * http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10176.aspx
 * http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/05/chart-of-the-day-scottish-iq-test-scores-by-gender-reveal-the-greater-variability-of-male-intelligence/

Intelligence Variance

 * http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1274952/Men-ARE-brainy-women-says-scientist-Professor-Richard-Lynn.html
 * http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/dr-paul-irwing-there-are-twice-as-many-men-as-women-with-an-iq-of-120plus-426321.html
 * http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-how-and-why-sex-differences/201101/how-can-there-still-be-sex-difference-even-when-there-is
 * http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/SexDifferences.aspx

General Variance

 * http://www.aei-ideas.org/2010/07/great-male-variability-it%E2%80%99s-a-fact-but-it-can-sometimes-be-deadly/
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers#Differences_between_the_sexes

Reproductive Success

 * Fascinating

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Additional Points

 * The male variability hypothesis was proposed int he19th century - long before the discovery of the y-chromosome.