Beautiful Minds A Little Matter of Gender 2/5

Part 2/5 of the series

Synopsis
An investigation into the differences between male and female brains, using the mysterious savants as a key area of study.

The differences between male and female brains have plagued scientists for centuries but with new brain scanning technologies, they can now examine exactly what goes on inside our heads.

Of particular interest are savants; a small but highly intelligent group of people who can multiply 5-digit numbers without a calculator, speak a dozen languages or recite 12,000 books from memory.

Six out of seven savants are male, begging the question: how big is this little difference between male and female brains? Could gender be the key to the savant's capacity for genius?

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Beautiful
• Minds
• Little
• Matter
• of
• Gender
• genius
• savants
• neurology
• science
• kim
• peek
• daniel
• tammet

[zeroows]

thanks

[Jcolinsol]

@elipse135

How do you know that elephants aren't the smartest beings?

[Jcolinsol]

@TheEruditepolymath

Troll

[TheEruditepolymath]

@Jcolinsol  fucktard

[Zachdudeio2]

this got corny when the woman came on. Her voice is pissing me off

[longfootbuddy]

they want to make you think youre just bio robots, products of evo, all the same with neatly fitting explanations.. its all bs

[Jcolinsol]

@ninjatoothpaste

I suppose that would be more of a measure of how much the ego plays into their consciousness. Probably not as much as humans. The ego is our claim to fame.

[ninjatoothpaste]

@Jcolinsol for all we know they could be smarter than us in many ways, however they don't have any particularly useful appendages for making things so even if they are... Perhaps scientists should tease them about not having hands and see if they have the intelligence to get pissed off about it? :P hehe

[jb137719]

this is just a thought, hope nobody gets upset.

[jb137719]

i hope you guys won't mind if i use the word retarded but no disrespect to the savants or autistic.

I'm thinking that because some savants or autistic people are retarded, I'm thinking that whatever they see takes time to be processed in their brains because of that slow process they are able to memorize or master the information they see or hear like a second nature. allowing them pull that information in an instant. which makes them more capable of remembering informations without a problem.

[TyrannosaurusBoz]

Wow, I'm female I think I have more in common to a male's mind than female.

[rentamobtv]

I usually enjoy this series, however this episode contains nothing but sex-based generalisations.