speaking II : IQ assignment
1.
Provide your dictoglos activity.
2.
Some scientists believe that woman did
better on math test an it means women are smarter than man. Do you agree whit
this opinion? Please provide your argument.
3.
Do you believe that an intelligence
person basically affected from his/her nature (parents genetic)? Or is it highly
influenced by nurture sides of the person? Elaborate please.
Dictoglos
activity
How
do we measure an individual’s intelligence? Most Americans would say that we
measure intelligence with an IQ test. However, there is disagreement about what
exactly an IQ means and how it should be used. Does an IQ test provide any
useful information about how successful a person will be in school? What about
life? In work?
However,
we defined intelligence, it is clear that some of this mysterious quality is
inherited from our parents or nature and some of it is the result of how we are
brought up or nurture. But, which has the greatest influence? Researchers have
been debating this question for years. And there are scientific studies to
support both the nature and the nurture’s side of the argument.
One
of the most controversial questions in the nature or nurture debate consense
gender and IQ, is there a biological different about men and women? Is one sex
smarter? The latest research seems to say no. It is true that there are some
differences in how well males and females perform on certain mental task.
However, on general IQ test, we find no measurable differences between sexes.
Our
small internet research about woman did better in math
Baroness Susan
Greenfield is one of Britain's best-known female scientists; she's a professor
of neurophysiology at the University of Oxford, a former director of the Royal
Institution and an accomplished writer and broadcaster on scientific matters.
Albert Einstein: Was he
the perfect example of a male scientist being more intelligent than a female colleague?
For not only is the average man more intelligent
than the average woman but also a clear and rather startling imbalance emerges
between the sexes at the high levels of intelligence that the most demanding
jobs require.
For instance, at the near-genius level (an IQ of
145), brilliant men outnumber brilliant women by 8 to one. That's statistics,
not sexism.
In this context, Professor Greenfield's
indignation that only one in ten science professors is female doesn't seem all
that bad. It also goes some way to explaining why, in almost 110 years of Nobel
Prize history, only two women have ever won the Prize for physics, only four
have won the Prize for chemistry and why no women at all have ever won the
coveted Fields Medal for mathematics in eight decades of trying.
The evidence has piled
up for years. In 1990, Janet Shibley Hyde, PhD, a psychologist at the
University of Wisconsin, and colleagues published a groundbreaking
meta-analysis that compiled data from 100 different studies of math
performance. Synthesizing data collected on more than 3 million participants
between 1967 and 1987, the researchers found no large overall differences
between boys and girls in math performance. Girls were slightly better at
computation in elementary and middle school. In high school, boys showed a
slight edge in problem solving, possibly because they took more science classes
that emphasized those skills. But boys and girls understood math concepts
equally well and any gender differences actually narrowed over the years, belying
the notion of a fixed or biological differentiating factor.
Our argument about
woman and math
According to the small research we did on
internet. We found out that women is actually less smart than man, as we can
see in history there were lots of males scientists compare to the females scientist.
For example the inventor of Al-Jabar theory is Al-Jabar.
Other than Aljabar, we can also make a long unending list of males scientist,
in almost 110 years of Nobel Prize history, only two women have ever won the
Prize for physics, only four have won the Prize for chemistry and why women at
all have ever won the coveted Fields Medal for mathematics in eight decades of
trying.
At the same time we do
realize that this is not just about IQ but also about feminism. So, if we
consider feminism value then we believe in equality of each person, that
everyone has the same power to be anything they wanted to be. Everyone has the
same possibility to do they wanted to.
Our
small research on internet about IQ coming from genes or nurture
Research on heritability of IQ infers from the
similarity of IQ in closely related persons the
proportion of variance
of IQ among individuals in a study population that is associated with genetic
variation within that population. This provides a maximum estimate of genetic
versus environmental influence for phenotypic
variation in IQ in that population. "Heritability",
in this sense, "refers to the genetic contribution to variance within a
population and in a specific environment". There has been significant
controversy in the academic community about the heritability of IQ since
research on the issue began in the late nineteenth century. Intelligence
in the normal range is a polygenic trait. However,
certain single gene genetic disorders
can severely affect intelligence, with phenylketonuria
as an example.
The Medical Research
Council certainly takes his ideas very seriously; it has awarded Professor
Plomin and others pounds 2.6m to identify the genes that underpin intelligence.
At London Zoo, the Galton Institute organised a conference on the same topic
called the "Biological and Social Aspects of Intelligence".
Professor Thomas
Bouchard, head of a long-running twin study at the University of Minnesota,
asserted in the keynote Galton address: "Since Francis Galton's brilliant
outline [of the genetic basis to intelligence], there has been a steady
incremental advance. All the evidence points in the same direction and that is
genetics." Professor Bouchard claims intelligence is 70 per cent
inherited, whereas Professor Plomin believes the figure is nearer 50 per cent.
Professor Plomin argues
that the "nature vs nurture" debate has become sterile and that, in
the Nineties, the two camps have started to come together. The task today is to
study how genes and environment interact, not how one takes precedence over
another. Traits that are genetic need not be immutable, because the environment
can be modified so that the genes never become manifest.
Our
argument about IQ coming from genes or nurture
Scientists
said that IQ is about 70 % inherited. Genes does play a big role in making us
the way we are, in other words, we have pretty much the same characteristic as
our parents have. Black hair, blonde hair, small eyes, big eyes, tall, short,
etc. So, genes does decide who we are.
In
previews case “choose several people in the end of the world-scene to build up
the new highly civilization” we remember that we also required good parents to
make good children. So, genes does matter.
In
other side, we believe that intelligence coming from environment too. Because
we cannot define someone is less smart. If that someone has good inveronment,
will, enthusiasm and hardwork then that someone with low IQ has the same chance
as someone with high IQ.
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