Female intuition is a myth: Study

IANS
Thursday April 14 2005 12:23 IST

London - Female intuition is a myth, according to a new
study that suggests men have an equal, if not greater,
claim to the power of the mind.

The study of more than 15,000 people for the Edinburgh
International Science Festival found that men are
slightly more intuitive when asked to judge whether
smiles are real or fake, reports the Scottish daily
Scotsman.

Participants in the study called Sixth Sense were asked
to judge how intuitive they thought they were before
being shown a series of photographs of people smiling.

Women thought they were more intuitive -- with 78 percent
of women ranking themselves as highly intuitive, compared
to only 58 percent of men.

But when participants -- 60 percent of whom were female -
- were shown 10 pairs of photographs of men and women
smiling, it was the men who managed to identify an
average 72 percent of the genuine smiles. Women spotted
71 percent.

Richard Wiseman, the psychologist behind the study, said:
"We have amassed a huge amount of information, and
initial analyses from the festival events have already
yielded some fascinating findings.

"These findings question the notion that women are really
more intuitive than men. Some previous research has found
evidence for female intuition, but perhaps over time men
have become more in touch with their intuitive side."

Participants, aged between 10 and 89, were shown the
images on the festival's website as well as at events
across the city. Wiseman revealed there was no
correlation between participants' age and their ability
to tell the differences between smiles.

Female intuition was dealt another blow when it was shown
that women had trouble telling if the male models used in
the pictures were faking their smiles.

Only 67 percent of women correctly identified male fake
smiles compared with 76 percent of men spotting female
fake smiles.

Elisabeth Cornwell, a psychologist at St Andrews
University's perception lab, said: "What we think of as
intuition is often just our brains being clever and
processing information.

"It's more a case of our experiences influencing our
decisions in a way that we're not aware of consciously."

Singling out one particular part of the study, Cornwell
said: "One possible explanation for men interpreting
women's smiles well is that men tend to read more into
women's smiles."

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