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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted on the other thread. Actual studies on this conclude the achievement gap across the education spectrum is due to women having better executive function skills and their pre-frontal cortex developing earlier.

Which leads to... failure to launch, video game addiction, substance abuse, etc. and just generally not having their shit together.  In non-STEM fields there is now affirmative action for white men. They are getting in under lower standards to try to balance classes. And classes are still unbalanced. Look at the WM admissions numbers. [/quote]

Teacher and mother of a teen boy here. Girls “do school” better than boys on average and it is due to their superior executive function skills. I am not as “smart” as my teen son but I did MUCH better in school. Why? His EF skills are years behind a girl’s at this point. I’m sure moms of both sexes can understand. My son and my make students have trouble remembering to hand in completed work. They do it and either don’t physically hand it in or forget to turn it in on Google Classroom. That negatively affects their grade. Girls are better at everything school related- doing the work, handing it in on time, class discussions, being on top of their assignments etc. [/quote]

I just spent several minutes on google, and did not find any overwhelming evidence that girls develop executive functioning skills substantially (or at all) earlier than boys. I did find one interesting study out of Pakistan, where, as the researchers expected, they found boys had better executive functioning skills than girls, which in the discussion they attributed partly to the higher expectations on them.

But if you have research to share, that would be great.[/quote]

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