IQ Test for Women
Women can take this free IQ test in about 12 minutes, the same 25 visual puzzles as everyone, since large studies find no meaningful difference in average IQ between women and men.
- Questions
- 25 visual puzzles
- Question types
- 5 sets, each easy to hard
- Time
- 12-minute timer
- Scoring
- Same for every age, not age-adjusted
Free to take and no sign-up to start. After the last question you can choose to unlock your score and report, which is paid. This is not a clinical or diagnostic test.
Searches for an "IQ test for women" often come with a worry underneath: are IQ tests biased against women?
It is a good question, and it has a clear, evidence-based answer.
Do men and women differ in average IQ?
Not in any meaningful way, and test makers have worked to keep it that way from the start. When Lewis Terman built the 1916 Stanford-Binet, he chose items that showed little difference between boys and girls.
Independent evidence supports the result. A 2007 study by Ian Deary and colleagues compared brothers and sisters from the same families in a large US survey and found at most a trivially small difference in average general intelligence. It did find slightly more variation among the brothers, with more males at both the very low and very high ends.
Where differences do show up
Averages hide some specific patterns. Men tend to score higher on mental rotation tasks, one of the larger differences in cognitive research, according to a 1995 meta-analysis by Daniel Voyer and colleagues. Women tend to score higher on some verbal fluency and processing speed tasks.
This test has 25 questions split evenly across five types, five of them spatial, so it is not weighted towards any single skill.
What about stereotype threat?
You may have read that reminding women of a stereotype lowers their scores. The original studies were influential, but a 2015 meta-analysis by Paulette Flore and Jelte Wicherts, looking at maths tests in schoolgirls, found the effect was small and probably inflated by publication bias.
The practical advice is simple: take the test the way you would any puzzle, in a quiet moment.
How this test works for women
Everyone takes the same test with the same scoring. There is no separate women's version, and there does not need to be.
- No general-knowledge questions, which reduces the effect of differences in educational opportunity.
- Your result is private and is not compared by sex.
IQ Test for Women: FAQ
Is this IQ test different for women?+
No. Women and men take the same 25 questions with the same timer and scoring.
Are IQ tests biased against women?+
Modern tests are designed and checked so that items do not favour either sex, and average scores come out very close.
Is there an IQ test for teen girls?+
Teen girls take the same test as everyone. The teens page explains how scores work between 13 and 17.
Sources
- Terman, L. M. (1916). The Measurement of Intelligence. Houghton Mifflin.
- Deary, I. J., Irwing, P., Der, G., & Bates, T. C. (2007). Brother-sister differences in the g factor in intelligence: analysis of full, opposite-sex siblings from the NLSY1979. Intelligence, 35(5), 451-456.
- Voyer, D., Voyer, S., & Bryden, M. P. (1995). Magnitude of sex differences in spatial abilities. Psychological Bulletin, 117(2), 250-270.
- Flore, P. C., & Wicherts, J. M. (2015). Does stereotype threat influence performance of girls in stereotyped domains? A meta-analysis. Journal of School Psychology, 53(1), 25-44.