Here’s an important breakthrough:
Boys do better on tests of technical aptitude (for example, mechanical aptitude tests) than girls. The same is true for adults. A new study published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, describes a theory explaining how the difference comes about: the root cause is that boys are just more interested in technical things, like taking apart a bike, than girls are.
More on this startling result here.
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I would have thought that a November 5 post called Guy Stuff would be about Guy Fawkes.
Good point.
I strongly disagree that males are more analytical than females! Let’s take that view apart and look at each of its claims . . .
Jeffery Hodges
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