Women are smarter than men

The conclusion of this year's comprehensive IQ measurement around the world is that members of today's fairer sex are much more intelligent than men.

Since IQ tests have been done, psychologists have noticed that for the first time in the last 100 years, women have achieved a better result than men.

A century ago, they were about five points behind men, but that difference has been decreasing over the years, so that now they will achieve a better result. This is a consequence of modern society. The complexity of the modern world forces our brains to adjust and our IQ to grow.

One possible explanation lies in the fact that women’s lives have become quite stressful and require multitasking between raising a family and a career. The second explanation is that women usually have a slightly higher potential for intelligence than men, but that they have only now become aware of that.

Psychologist James Flynn came to the conclusion that women are smarter after analyzing IQ tests from Western European countries and from the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Argentina and Estonia.

Women have better results on intelligence tests

For almost a century, men had about five points more on IQ tests than women, until recently! This gap is closed and the women have taken the lead! Over the last 100 years, the IQ of both women and men has increased, so we are all getting smarter, however the IQ of women has grown faster.

Some believe that women's juggling between family life and building a successful career is the cause of this phenomenon (multitasking is therefore responsible), while others believe that women have always had this hidden potential, but are only now showing it.

Cambridge English professor Helena Jamieson says, "I think deep down, women have always known they were more intelligent - but as the weaker sex, they kept quiet and allowed men to rule the world."

Famous women with very high IQ and / or impressive education are Lisa Kudrow, Natalie Portman, Mayim Bialik, Elizabeth Banks, Sharon Stone and Shakira.

It has been scientifically proven that they are better at multitasking - performing multiple tasks at the same time

For anyone who has ever wondered about a woman’s ability to juggle between multiple obligations at once, get ready to confirm that. The scientists scanned the brains of 949 men and women to map the connections between different sections of the brain. The results showed that women have a far better connection between the right and left halves of the brain, while men have a better connection between the front and back.

What does that mean? These different connections make women better at multitasking while men are better at one, more complex task. The scans also found that women remember faces better while men are better at tasks such as parallel car parking. Research has also established the existence of these differences only after the end of puberty.

Better sense of smell

Have you ever wondered why women pay more attention to the scent of roses or why they notice changes in other people's colognes or perfumes more often? This is because they have a better sense of smell than the man sitting next to them.

Women usually outperform men on odor tests, and until now, scientists did not know why that was the case. In fact, a study conducted in Brazil that examined the brains of the deceased, specifically 7 men and 11 women, found that on average, women have 43% more cells than men in the area of ​​the brain's odor control center (which controls odors).

Researchers also believe that this sharpened sense of smell in women has a natural connection with experiences and emotions, which makes this olfactory superiority a cognitive rather than a perceptual trait. During pregnancy, the senses become even sharper, thanks to hormones.

They see more colors

A study conducted by a psychology professor at Brooklyn College found that men and women really see things differently, so now we can really start a general debate about blue and black, or gold or white, and let it flare up.

The journal Biology of Sex Differences writes, "Along most of the visible spectrum, men need slightly longer wavelengths than women to experience the same hue." The experiment noted that women were better at perceiving different shades in the colors of objects that men could not see. It was also noted that women were better at determining colors and that men were better at quickly tracking an object as well as perceiving details on an object in the distance.

It is believed that these are evolutionary differences and that they have something to do with our hunting and gathering past.

The smartest woman in the world

Marilyn vos Savant was born as Marilyn Sword, but she did not keep her father's surname for so long. She started believing very early on that they should keep their premarital surnames, so the son should take the father's surname, and the daughter the mother's. So she became Marilyn vos Savant (expert), which suits her. She is still the woman with the highest IQ in the world.

While she was a 10-year-old girl, she took two intelligence tests. The first was the Stanford-Binet test and included a set of questions that measure cognitive abilities through five factors. The second was the Mega test, designed to measure IQ above 145. According to the Mega test, her IQ was 186, and according to the Stanford-Binet scale, it was 228.

After a brief analysis, the experts concluded that this ten-year-old has the mental abilities of a 23-year-old. Thirty years later, he will go down in history as the person with the highest IQ in the world, who also held that record in the Guinness Book of Records for a long time, until that category was abolished in 1990.

Despite her unprecedented IQ, her education was like any other. She went to a local high school and worked in her father’s store. She began her studies in social studies, and then moved to study psychology at the University of Washington, where she dropped out after two years.

In the early 80's she moved to New York and started building her writing career, she also wrote IQ quizzes for Omni magazine before she got a job at "Parade". She wrote a column and people could send her questions that she would answer.

In 1987, she married Robert Jarvik, one of the designers of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart. She later became chief financial officer at Jarvik Heart Inc. The two were then known as the smartest couple in New York.

Over the years, there has been debate about the authenticity of tests that measured her IQ, as current versions do not allow scores above 170. And she herself has argued that this is a somewhat vague area, as intelligence is no longer so easy to measure. There are thousands of factors that can affect mental ability and intelligence, and not all tests are equipped enough to cope with everything.

She is without a doubt one of, if not the smartest person in the world, but Marilyn vos Savant kept completely away from any spotlights. And she remained anonymous, a completely ordinary woman, columnist and author who published several books.