Male superiority: Go ahead and Google to confirm

01 April 2015 - 02:56
By ©The Daily Telegraph

Here is an area in which men triumph over women: Googling abilities. One of the key studies was done with a group of schoolchildren who were given a project and access to Google. They had to find out how mosquitoes select their prey.The boys out-performed the girls by a "significant" margin. They were better at acquiring information directly related to the subject at hand, and they gained more high-quality knowledge related to the topic as a whole.

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