"INTUITION" GETS SETBACK
Feminine intuition —just another superstition. The 'best that can be claimed for women in '"'sizing up" persons at first sight, is that they are almost as good as men, according to experiments reported to the "British Journal of Medical Psychology" by Dr. C. W. Valentine. Neither sex, lie found, has anything in this line to boast, about. He confronted university graduate students of both sexes with school children who had been rated by their teachers over a long period for the traits of conscientiousness, kindness, obstinacy, straight-forwardness and general intelligence. The students were asked to judge the children on these qualities by looking at them and talking with them. Both sexes judged boys equally well; The men judged the girls a little bettor. Women, Dr. Valentine found, arrived at their judgments quicker and were more positive about them, but were no nearer right. They r=cemed to take in more details of appearance in forming their opinions, while men judged more on the conversation of the youngsters.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 275, 20 November 1931, Page 6
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