happy hour
January 27, 2008Tonight’s drink : water.
It’s raining in around my place this few days, and it’s a peaceful sort of rain. As if home is so inexperienced with weather, it doesn’t know how to have a proper storm. A little jingle from a wind chime here, a little puddle on a street corner there, and -look out- it’s getting wild and woolly. It’s sort of endearing.
A lot has changed this past few months. Enough to make it feel as if before were another life. In some sense, it was for me. I feel like I have died, gone to hell, and rose from the dead to get here now.
Recently i was reading NEWSWEEK and the are running a story about research from a London scientist concerning intelligence of the sexes. Adrian Furnham studies perceived intelligence.
HE SAYS he found that “women, across the world, tend to underplay their intelligence, while men overstate it. 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.” Not only that, but Furnham says that both genders tend to believe that their fathers are smarter than their mothers and grandfathers are more intelligent than their grandmothers. And guess what? Parents tend to think their sons are brighter than their daughters.”
The really funny part is that this perception of greater ability is probably allowing underperforming men to beat smarter women for jobs.
“Men aren’t more clever or smarter. But since they think they are, they are more confident about their abilities. These self-beliefs, however, may be highly adaptive. Who gets a job? A bright woman who doesn’t think she’s smart, or a not-so-bright man who believes he’s capable of anything? Arrogance and hubris are not attractive qualities, but confident, self-belief may be.”
SO GUESS WHAT CHARLOTTE !! i am smarter that you although you might be smarter than me… !
