• Question: is it true that girls are clever than boys??

    Asked by to Claire, Ian, Sergey, Vicky, Zena on 19 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Sergey Lamzin

      Sergey Lamzin answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      Who told you that? Of cause not. We are all equal (aside from our intimate parts). You can do and be anything you want!

    • Photo: Zena Hira

      Zena Hira answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      Of course not!!! Girls and boys are equally smart

    • Photo: Claire Shooter

      Claire Shooter answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      Nope! Girls and boys can be equally smart or equally silly

    • Photo: Vicky Schneider

      Vicky Schneider answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      what??? as all the others said we’re equal 🙂

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      Ian Simpson answered on 21 Jun 2014:

      No. I guess some of the sources of this idea at least in the UK come from assessments of gaps in achievement between boys and girls in certain aspects of the UK schooling system. I believe this is fairly widely attributed to social and societal issues, particularly in certain sub-sections of communities. I’ve seen no evidence whatever to suggest there is a real difference and from a Neuroscience perspective wouldn’t expect to. There are, however, very real differences in brain structure (and presumably function) between male and female brains that have been used to suggest biases in aptitudes between the sexes. For example this recent work :-

      http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/males-and-females-differ-in-specific-brain-structures

      What that really means is controversial and open to a lot of interpretation at this point.

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