I always thought it was really cool when a close male friend would drop the phrase “male intuition” into conversation. “How’d you guess?” I’d say, and he’d shrug nonchalantly: “Male intuition”. It made me smile, and I appreciated the anti Mars/Venus sentiment.

Turns out he was on to something. A recent internet experiment involving 15,000 people demonstrated that “women are not more intuitive than men: they just think they are”. The experiment showed that women are no better than men at spotting which smile is a fake, and which was sincere. Men and women scored equally on the test.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, John Gray.

Posted by Catherine Redfern on 16 April 2005, at 2:36 PM