Jan 30 2008
Language aptitude, multitasking, abstract reasoning
I’m curious whether these memes have any basis in reality:
- Men have better visual/spatial reasoning than women.
- Women have better language skills than men.
- Men have better abstract reasoning skills than women.
- Women are better at multitasking than men.
I’ve googled lots but come up empty. Well, lots of people convinced of the truth of these statements but no-one with so much as a reference to follow up.
The women/language one is the only one I know a little about, in that the Daily Mail seems extraordinarily keen on repeating the pop-science myths which The Female Brain described — women talk more than men, etc.
Some information on the origins and veracity of these claims would be really interesting.