In a Newsweek interview, University College London psychologist Adrian Furnham reveals the differences in intelligence between men and women. The key finding: Although men are overrepresented on both the very high and very low ends of the spectrum, in general there are no differences in intelligence between the sexes. The really key finding: Men think they’re smarter and — wtf? — women concur. As Furnham explains:
“[O]n average, women underestimate their IQ scores by about five points while men overestimate their own IQs. . . . Men with average to below-average intelligence think that they are quite clever. And very smart women think their intelligence is low. . . . Both sexes believe that their fathers are smarter than their mothers and grandfathers are more intelligent than their grandmothers. . . . If there are children, [both] men and women think their sons are brighter than their daughters.”
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