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There is a positive correlation between cranial capacity and height, some correlation between brain volume and height, and some correlation between brain volume
by zhdc1 8y ago
There is a positive correlation between cranial capacity and height, some correlation between brain volume and height, and some correlation between brain volume and intelligence within gender.
Women score as well as men on general intelligence tests, although men have higher levels of variance and score slightly higher on certain subsets (e.g., spatial reasoning). This study shows the former very well - although men scored slightly better on a verbal-numerical reasoning test, the results were statistically insignificant (p=.45).
The relationship between body size, brain volume, and general intelligence only appears to apply within a given gender, and not between the two genders.
As far as I can tell, all of this has been known for a long, long time, so I don't think anyone's feelings are going to get hurt from a study that looked at brain volumes in older (44-77 year old) adults in the United Kingdom.