Medicine: Women vs. Men

Prof. Howard R. Mayberry, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, tested 300 men and women students as to their perception of optical illusions, such as two points of light, one moving and one stationary, in a dark room. Whether they were right or wrong, women were, as a rule, more positive of their perceptions, and they were wrong more frequently than the men, who were usually open to conviction.

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