Men Versus Women

Southland Times, Issue 22351, 16 June 1934, Page 17

Men Versus Women

According to Professor Cyril Burt, of University College, London, in a lecture on “The Phychology of the Sexes,” women have better memories than men, can hear a little better, are definitely “up” on colour discrimination, and are in no way inferior in average intelligence. Professor Burt said that although women were interested in the household arts, nearly all labour-saving devices were invented by men, but in general intelligence there was no clear difference between one sex and the other. Men, he said, won on speed and action, but there were fewer women who were left-handed, stammered, or suffered from a squint. The results of exhaustive laboratory tests revealed the following differences between men and women:. Women.—Skin twice as sensitive as that of men, and touch discrimination 80 per cent, greater; can endure more pain than men; are quicker to detect presence of odour; tend to be more short-sighted than long-sighted; are more dexterous in finer movement; have better memories.

Men.—Have more sense of movement and position than women; are quicker to detect the finer difference between similar odours; have almost a monopoly of blindness; are much more prone to colour blindness (one man in 30 or 50, compared with one woman in 1000); are more dexterous in coarser movement; and are more imaginative. —(The New Idea.)