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A paper which looks at research into the correlation between gender stereotyping and estimated and actual IQ scores of men and women. Bibliography lists 15 sources
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studies conducted on the ways in which gender stereotyping affects estimated IQ scores, which for the most part have tended to show that there is a distinct difference between the
estimates of males and females; it has been suggested that this may be related to elements of social conditioning connected with the individuals perception of their parents level of intelligence.
One of the first studies was carried out by Hogan
(1978) who found that not only did males estimate their IQ as being higher than did females, but also that the majority of both male and female subjects saw their
fathers as having higher IQs than their mothers. Subsequent research by Belo (1992), Bennett (1996), Byrd and Stacey (1993) and Furnham and Rawles (1995) confirmed these results. In the majority
of cases females regarded themselves as being less intelligent than males, and this was also true of family members. Most of those studied perceived sisters, daughters and so on as
less intelligent than brothers and sons. Even though actual measurements
of IQ would strongly indicate that intelligence level itself does not vary markedly between males and females, this was not the generally-held perception of those studied. As noted by Rammstedt
and Rammsayer (2000), this led to the development of two theories regarding the differences. Lynn and Mulhern (1991), for instance, stated that there was in fact evidence that males had
higher IQs, although as Rammstedt and Rammsayer point out, the actual average difference tends to be less than two points on a full IQ scale, and cannot therefore be regarded
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