title: Sex, social class, and estimating IQ: middle-class male subjects rate themselves most intelligent.
abstract: 153 sociology students specified parental occupation and job status before estimating their own and their parents' overall IQ. Male subjects, as predicted, gave a higher mean self-estimated score to themselves than did female subjects (113 vs 106). Fathers were awarded higher IQ scores than mothers (114 vs 107). Male subjects who had mothers in a higher social class gave themselves the highest mean score.
authors.affiliation: University College London. a.furnham@ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Furnham
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dixon
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rasmussen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: O'Connor
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D012923:Social Class