Ladies, it’s official; you’re smarter than your male counterparts.
Page 24 of the Star tells us that new research has found that female IQ scores have risen above men’s for the first time in 100 years, and it could all be down to the skill of multi-tasking.
Since IQ testing began a century ago, women have been as much as five points behind, leading psychologists to suggest embedded genetic differences.
But that gap has been narrowing in recent years and this year women have moved ahead, according to James Flynn, a world-renowned authority on IQ tests href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Flynn" target="_blank">.
He says; “In the last 100 years the IQ scores of both men and women have risen but women’s have risen faster,’
”This is a consequence of modernity. The complexity of the modern world is making our brains adapt and raising our IQ.”
One possible explanation is that women’s lives have become more demanding as they multitask between raising a family and doing a job.
Another is that women have a slightly higher potential intelligence than men and are only now realising it.
