Luminosity Asks the Question - Who is smarter - Women or Men?

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“Who’s smarter, men or women?” It’s an age-old question, and after examining our database, we realized that Lumosity can shed a little light on this contentious topic — though the answers may surprise you.

With over 14 million members scattered across 192 countries, Lumosity has hundreds of millions of brain training results that we can use to compare performance between men and women across a variety of cognitive tasks. Our researchers have combed through these results to shed some light not just on this question, but more generally what training can do to make folks smarter regardless of gender.

The 40+ exercises and assessments on Lumosity.com allow us to compare a large number of cognitive abilities. In examining these, we discovered that neither men nor women, in general, are smarter. Rather, each gender — on average — tends to have relative strengths and weaknesses across various cognitive domains.