In the study, researchers read a story about a highly intelligent person to a group of 96 boys and girls, ages 5, 6 and 7. The kids were asked to guess the intelligent person's gender. After that, the kids were shown pictures of pairs of adults, some of the same sex and some opposite sex, and were asked to say which one they thought was intelligent. Then, the kids were asked to assign certain traits to men and women. The results show that five-year-old girls are just as likely as boys to assign brilliance to their own gender, but the six and seven-year-old girls started believing that less and less. While older boys said other men were likely to be "really, really smart" 65% of the time, their girl classmates only selected women as "really, really smart" 48% of the time.
It gets worse. The girls in the study tended to get better grades on average than the boys in their class, but they didn't link that achievement with brilliance. So not only do young girls think they're less likely to become brilliant, they already don't believe they are. This, researchers say, has an influence on our futures.
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