Laurel Outlook

INTELLECT:
Women's Best?

If two Indiana university professors are to be believed, then the male of the species must face an unpleasant fact--namely, that girls (or women) can reason better than boys (or men).

THE professorial gentlemen claimed, and cited figures for proof, that the female is the superior of the male in the reasoning department, and this despite ten million jokes, books, philosophical discourses and general experience to the contrary.

The professors say unequivocally that given a set of circumstances, the lassies can come up with more logical answers than boys can do.

These gentlemen are Dr. William H. Fox and Prof. Nicholas A. Fattu of the research division of Indiana university's school of education.

They made the tests in two high schools, one in a city of 11,000 in north central Indiana, and the other in a consolidated rural school near Indianapolis.

TO USE the professors' own words in the report:

"Scores on the interpretation of data test, seeking to establish their relationship to measures of achievement, personality and interest, found no differentiation . . . but there was a clear cut advantage for girls in both schools in ability to reason, to see relationships, to make comparisons and to suspend judgment until pertinent facts are collected."

To which many a male will counter: Too bad they seem to lose those faculties when they grow up.