The intelligence of men and women are equal. However perceived intelligence is quite a different thing.
Perceived intelligence, for those who don't know, is how people view themselves and how they perceive their intelligence to be. It's rather self-explanatory really...
Anyway, a recent British research report finds that men are far more likely to over-estimate their actual intelligence, and women are more likely to under-estimate their own. A large part of this is due to the male ego, and in the woman's case, it's a mixture of humbleness and the image (unconscious or not) that men put out that they are "superior."
So though the two are equal, the men's egos get in the way and they think they're just the greatest stuff on earth.
Well guess what guys?
You're not.
On a more relevant note, this has lamentably affected society into holding a general unspoken belief that among many (whether they admit or realize it or not) that men are smarter than women, when this is in reality, simply not the case.
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