Smiles That Destroy the Myth of Female Intuition The popular assumption that women's powers of intuition exceed those of men has been overturned by a new study. Psychologists who tested the abilities of more than 15,000 people to identify the sincerity or otherwise of different smiles have concluded that female intuition is a myth. Shown a series of pairs of images of individuals displaying real and fake smiles, men marginally outperformed women. When it came to judging genuine and false expressions of happiness in the opposite ***, male participants did significantly better than females.