Sex, social class, and estimating IQ: middle-class male subjects rate themselves most intelligent.
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.
Furnham
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A
University College London. a.furnham@ucl.ac.uk
Dixon
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D
Harrison
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T
Rasmussen
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S
O'Connor
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R
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D012923:Social Class