"He's Not as Smart as He Thinks" Uh oh... There Goes the Ego!

[KennyFlys]

I won't agree but I won't disagree. I'll take the wimpy position on the subject at hand....

A British researcher reports that the male ego is often larger than his actual IQ. But you might be surprised by what women think of men's intellect.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/101079

So do most men think they're Albert Einstein?
There certainly is a greater male ego. It's what we call the male hubris and female humility effect. Men are more confident about their IQ. These studies show that on average, women underestimate their IQ scores by about five points while men overestimate their own IQs. Since these studies were international in scope, the results were essentially the same whether women were from Argentina, America, Britain, Japan or Zimbabwe. Another factor affecting perception may be distribution of IQ ... Although [men and women] are on average the same, the people at the very top and the very bottom of the IQ bell curve are more likely to be men. That is a pattern that we see in the university setting, with men either being at the very top of the class or at the bottom.

 

[sba55]

Interesting. Personally, I hope my IQ is somewhere in the 80s. That number is so useless that, if I had to take the test, I'd try to do poorly.

-Felix
.10 percentile GRE test
UC Berkeley Grad

....I guess the GRE and the IQ tests are alike....