Male Brain v. Female Brain

10 debatable differences between men and women's brains.

6. Men tend to score an average of 4 to 5 points higher on intelligence tests, as reported by the journal Intelligence in Sept. 2006. Don't believe us? Click here.

6. The average man will think about sex as often as once a minute, while the average woman will think of sex much less often, as infrequently as once every one or two days.

As a woman, my biggest accomplishment is that I noticed that there were two number six entries and no number five entry. Any thoughts?

I don't think anything on the list is so scandalous, but I don't necessarily buy into men being smarter just because a study says that they score higher on intelligence tests and the link provided didn't really wow me.

The link explaining the differences in processing through gray or white matter was really interesting though.

In human brains, gray matter represents information processing centers, whereas white matter works to network these processing centers.

The results from this study may help explain why men and women excel at different types of tasks, said co-author and neuropsychologist Rex Jung of the University of New Mexico. For example, men tend to do better with tasks requiring more localized processing, such as mathematics, Jung said, while women are better at integrating and assimilating information from distributed gray-matter regions of the brain, which aids language skills.

Scientists find it very interesting that while men and women use two very different activity centers and neurological pathways, men and women perform equally well on broad measures of cognitive ability, such as intelligence tests.