“Beliefs About Cognitive Gender Differences: Accurate for Direction, Underestimated for Size”, Diane F. Halpern, Carli A. Straight, Clayton L. Stephenson2010-11-07 (psychology, sociology; similar)⁠:

Although stereotype accuracy is a large, and often controversial, area of psychological research, surprisingly little research has examined the beliefs people have about gender differences in cognitive abilities.

This study investigates the accuracy of these beliefs in a sample of 106 highly educated US adults. Participants provided estimates of male and female performance for 12 cognitive tasks and games. These estimates were compared with published data on gender differences on the same 12 cognitive tasks and games.

Results: showed that participants were generally accurate about the direction of gender differences, but underestimated the size of gender differences.

[Keywords: gender differences, stereotype accuracy, beliefs about gender differences]

See Also:

• “Sex differences in general knowledge”

• “Myths and misconceptions about intelligence: A study of 35 myths”

• “Stereotype accuracy: One of the largest and most replicable effects in all of social psychology”

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