multi-lingual = mentally deficient?
Friday, August 26, 2005 (4:53 PM)
apparently, some people have made claims that multi-linguals are mentally deficient as compared to mono-linguals. well, so good news for most people and bad news for me and to think that i'm considering taking up more languages. so by theory of the claims, it must be that the more languages i learn, the more deficient my brain becomes.
and by that definition, arsene wenger's probably one of the more mentally deficient people in the world. and the shocking news is, he's earning much more than what you and i are reaping. we are definitely not doubtful that most football managers are 'more mentally deficient'. otherwise, how do they communicate with players from other countries who do not speak their language?
with people who make such claims, definitely there will be people who are proving that multi-linguals are smarter. but let's not deal with that. after all, we are all human. there's no difference in level of intellect by the number of languages you speak or your gender. one of the articles today spoke of men being smarter than women. what a load of crap. i'm not a feminist activist but i'm not a chauvinist too. i just believe in factual things. the papers listed examples such as the fact that more men won the nobel prize than women but i believe that many women were deprived of the chance to win the prize because of the feudalism in the past. not because they are less intelligent.
also, the article said that explains why there are more men who become grand chessmasters. come on, how many women are actually that interested in chess. i think they need to take into account the ratio of participation by women instead of just plain crap nonsense plus, this kind of data will never be accurate because we can have 99% of women who are good at chess but those who join chess are the remaining 1% and at the same time, we can have only 2% of men who are good at chess and these 2% all play chess. you see what i mean? in that case it would appear that men are better chess players since they have more better players (according to the weird definition by some people) but the fact is not the case.
i'm not pro-feminist but i think we need to face the fact that women are no lesser than men. gender has no meaningful effect on intelligence.
no matter what people say, i will not believe that either gender is more intelligent. even if you think that i'm of the lesser intelligent men to be saying this, i don't really care because in my opinion, people who say men are smarter than women are probably more multi-lingual than anyone else in this world.