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Told reading tests are a game, boys score higher
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#12"The latest study, in France, involved 80 children, 48 boys and 30 girls" What do i win for spotting errors?
Two who declined to reveal their gender? Two intersex children? Hmm, yeah, seems unlikely! Email the editor, or there may be an errata email address.
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#14I think that 80 children is too small. The different results could as been biased that there were different classes, so different (possibly) skill levels of the students.
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#15I think that 80 children is too small. The different results could as been biased that there were different classes, so different (possibly) skill levels of the students.
I think that 80 children is too small. The different results could been biased by the fact that there were different classes, so different (possibly) skill levels of the students.
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#16I think that 80 children is too small. The different results could as been biased that there were different classes, so different (possibly) skill levels of the students.
I think that 80 children is too small. The different results could been biased by the fact that there were different classes, so different (possibly) skill levels of the students.
I think that 80 children is too small. The different results could been biased by the fact that there were different classes, so different (possibly) skill levels of the students.
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#17The paper is paywalled so I can only read the abstract, but I am super curious to learn how the researchers were able to confidently determine the male students' rationale. The researchers claim that stereotype threat caused the male students to perform worse on the reading test when the students were not told the test was a game. How did the researchers figure this out without even asking the students?
They are so certain of this conclusion that they put it in the title of the paper. It's amazing how much they could infer from test scores alone. I'm curious to read the paper to determine how they were able to rule out competitiveness, confidence, and every other explanation of the results.
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#19The paper is paywalled so I can only read the abstract, but I am super curious to learn how the researchers were able to confidently determine the male students' rationale. The researchers claim that stereotype threat caused the male students to perform worse on the reading test when the students were not told the test was a game. How did the researchers figure this out without even asking the students? They are so c…
Regarding the paywall:
http://www.sciencedirect.com.sci-hub.cc/science/article/pii/...
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess it is a bit too simplistic to conclude that the boys prefer competitive environments more than girls?
What matters is raising and parent models, not gender.
That is very likely, considering how different girls and boys are raised in regards to authority and competition.
On reddit’s /r/science several people with degrees in the relevant fields have also speculated that this might be the case.
From personal anecdote, I can confirm that guys usually care less about what an authority thinks, and more about how they are in relation to their peers, while girls consider competition less relevant.