A comparative study on intelligence difference between school boy’s and girl’s

Abstract

Background: Human Intelligence refers to a set of cognitive abilities, such as thinking, remembering, reading, learning, problem solving and using language. But human Intelligence depends not only one reason, but also many facto’s like Genetics, Environment, Delivery mode, parental education and also gender can effect human Intelligence. The purpose of the present study is to find out the difference in IQ level between school level boys and girls. rnMaterials & Method: The researcher selected total 182 (91 boy’s & 91 girl’s) school students of class X-level as the subject from 4 different school of Jalpaiguri distric, West Bengal, India. To find out the difference on IQ between Boy’s & Girl’s ‘G.C. Ahuja Intelligence questionnaire’. Were used. This questionnaire composed of total 135 question and eight different types of test (classification, analogies, reasoning, vocabulary, comprehension, series and best answer). The collected data were calculated by using descriptive statistics and “t” test and the level of significance was set on 0.05 level.rnResult: There were a significance difference exist on IQ level between school Boy’s and Girl’s as because cal “t” value (5.91) are higher than tab “t” 0.05(180) value(1.960). The Mean and Standard deviation of school aged Boy’s and Girl’s IQ level has been found 95.94± 23.31 and 77.64± 18.21.rnConclusion: The finding demonstrated that school boy’ possess higher IQ level then school girls.