ABSTRACT
Questions of whether men or women are smarter go back much farther than the history of intelligence testing, and research has furnished evidence supporting both answers. The latest answer-that women are smarter-comes from research by James Flynn, whose fi ndings concerning intelligence have stirred controversy over the past 25 years. Flynn contends that human intelligence has increased over the past century both for women and men, a phenomenon called the Flynn Effect (Hanlon, 2012). However, Flynn’s research (2012) indicates that women’s IQs have increased more rapidly. His fi ndings received widespread publicity, with interpretations that women are now smarter than men for the fi rst time since IQ testing began. Such headlines were destined to provoke even more controversy over IQ testing than has occurred in past years.
