PositiveMed

The Positive Side of Medicine

For the first time ever, women outscore men on IQ tests

Share This Post

For the first time ever, women outscore men on IQ tests

A new research by James R. Flynn shows that women outscore men on IQ test. Flynn is famous for his researches on human intelligence and for his theory of Flynn’s effect which basically says that IQ scores are increasing all around the world every year.

In this study Flynn looked at IQ scores from ages 14-18 in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Estonia, and Argentina. Setting the male score at 100, Flynn found that women scored the lowest in Australia (99.5), but in the other 4 nations Raven’s scores varied from 100.5 to 101.5, which shows that women perform slightly above men in the IQ test.

Since the beginning of IQ tests around a century ago, this is the first time that women beat men in IQ tests. Until a decade ago women were behind men in IQ tests for up to 5 points, but they closed the gap in the last couple of years, and now women are ahead!

More To Explore

all positive experiences

Your Friends’ Friends Can Make You Happy

Dr. Nicholas Christakis, who studies the mathematical, social, and genetic determinants of social network structure, explains how happiness flows one person to another. Watch Your

health

6 Foods that Help with Headaches

Are you one of the 100 million that people experience headaches in the form of Tension, Migraine headaches and sinus headaches? This happens very often

Health and Food

Banana Cream Pie, Kinda…

I love pie, but I cannot in good conscience very often eat all the things that are in pie. I started doing this, it is

Facts

The 9 Least Stressful Jobs of 2013

We work according to our capabilities to earn our livelihood. Stress is an integral part of almost every job. We want our jobs to be

Inspiration

Yeast Fast Day One

As I was doing research into this I discovered a great program, however, this is more involved than I want to get right now, and