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The myth of women's intuition

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I've never given the folklore about women being more intuitive than men a second's thought. Professor Richard Wiseman, of Hertfordshire University in Hatfield is clearly much more interested. No surprise that there's largely no difference. Nor that some women have bought into the myth: it is flattering.

Women rated themselves considerably more intuitive than men, with 77 percent of female participants classifying themselves as highly intuitive versus just 58 percent of men.

And yet, when it came to making accurate judgments there was little difference, with men spotting 72 percent of the genuine smiles and women detecting 71 percent of them.

What was even more intriguing was that men seemed to be better than women at detecting fake smiles in the opposite sex. Men correctly detected 76 percent of fake female smiles but women detected just 67 percent of men's fake smiles.

Female intuition is a myth, according to a scientific study

Richard Evans Lee
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While sceptical of the claims of female intuitiveness I must admit that on thing about this 'scientific' study leapt right out at me. "An Internet test on the truthfulness of a person's face has revealed that..." Hmmm... an Internet test. Very reliable then. Very scientific...

Posted by: OutEast | April 18, 2005 10:11 AM

As a woman i know that we are now finally able to be educated and own land after a 2,000 year absence. Most historians only really believe reality is the Patriarch and God formed. But if we dig deeper female intuition is only at an all time low because of repression. IN my astral travels and out of body expereinces from my own healing of my intuitive emotional body i have prophetic dreams, astral walk, dreamwalk. The aboriginals already knew all the planets existed. Why do white men when they figure something out have to media it all over the world like its the first time something is discovered. Thats an ego inflated at a God level. Get off your thrown Zeus, we already know women are more intuitive, they have to be, its in their cosmic emotional body.

Posted by: Mary | October 8, 2005 5:40 PM

I've known plenty of men who've made the same silly claims. Some of them sexists, some of them not.

Posted by: Laughing At You | October 8, 2005 6:59 PM

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