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... whether this was factual or not. He originated a study asking over 1800 high school & college students, as well as non-student adults, 'by the comparison with the national average score of 100, what do you estimate your IQ would be...' What he found was females underestimated their IQ while men overestimated their IQ. In the experiment Higgins (1987 cited from The Guardian, 10th February, 1987) conducted at Chester College, women's average IQ estimations were 111 while the average of men's remained 118. Five years later, Beloff (1992) followed the design of Hogan and Higgins (1992 cited in The Psychologist, July 1992). Her findings demonstrate, that as a group, males in her class estimated their mean IQ 6.4 higher than the mean estimate of females. Reilly and Mullhern (1994) repeated previous studies at Queen's University in Belfast. Students were asked to estimate their IQ and then take a digit ...