We expect you'll be brilliant! Unless you're a woman.
The portrayal of genius in pop culture and our expectations of brilliance.
What does a genius look like?
White men are far and away more likely to be considered geniuses than any other group
Sarah-Jane Leslie is a philosopher at Princeton, who combines her work with psychology.
Sarah-Jane has been researching perceptions of genius, and in that research she noticed something peculiar about the portrayal of geniuses in pop culture.
That led to co-authoring a recent study on expectations of brilliance.
Nora Young speaks to her about why our perception of who is likely to be a genius limits our ability to spot genius in the real world.