Counterpoint

[andrewducker]

I remembered that diotina sent me this link last week, about perceptions of IQ across gender. Some nice quotes:

An analysis of some 30 studies by British researcher Adrian Furnham, a professor of psychology at University College London, shows that men and women are fairly equal overall in terms of IQ. But women, it seems, underestimate their own candlepower (and that of women in general), while men overestimate theirs.

Both sexes believe that their fathers are smarter than their mothers and grandfathers are more intelligent than their grandmothers.

[both] men and women think their sons are brighter than their daughters.

Comments

[marrog.livejournal.com]

*Sighs*

It's disgusting really.

In my case my mother is probably smarter, but my dad is definitely more artistically talented and I seem to have gotten most of my talents from him. Apart from my talent for attracting old men to talk to me at bars/in queues. That I got from my mum. I also got my laziness from my mother though, which is why she never amounted to anything academically despite being easily the smartest kid in the family on the basis of raw intelligence.

I doubt my grandfather is smarter than my gran. He's got more education, but given that my gran is just as good at crosswords/etc without an English degree and was using a computer a decade before he was, even back in the days of MSDOS, I'd guess she's just as bright if not more so.