Early crude measurements in the 19th-century showed the male brains are significantly larger (about 11% larger) than female brains, which is sometimes used as an argument that the average male is more intellectually equipped than the average female. However, this neurosexist viewpoint has been refuted by modern brain imaging and investigations that show there are very little to no functional differences between the male and female brains.
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. Oh, really?
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