A. Furnham et al., Sex and cross-cultural differences in the estimated multifaceted intelligence quotient score for self, parents and siblings, PERS INDIV, 26(6), 1999, pp. 1025-1034
Over four hundred young people from Britain, Hawaii and Singapore estimated
their own, their parents' and their siblings' IQ score on each of Gardner'
s (1983) fundamental human intelligences: verbal (linguistic). logical (mat
hematical), spatial, musical, body-kinesthetic, interpersonal and intrapers
onal. They also answered six simple questions concerning intelligence tests
. There were both cultural and sex differences in the estimation of overall
own intelligence score. Males gave higher scores than females (109 vs 107)
while the British gave the highest score (109) compared with the Singapore
ans (106) and Hawaiians (104). Factor analysis of the seven dimensions yiel
ded either a two or three factor solution, the latter being verbal (verbal,
inter-intrapersonal), mathematical (mathematical and spatial), and musical
(musical, body-kinesthetic). There were consistent sex differences in the
estimations of the three factors for self, but not of parents, and only mar
ginally of sisters. Males more than females, and the British more than the
other groups, were more likely to believe in sex and race difference in int
elligence. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.