Are boys smarter than girls?
85612
at younger ages the male mental development is slightly different than the female development.  Ages 4 - 9 females generally have it easier comprehending writing and reading, where as males are more mechanismly inclined.  A boy is more apt to be interested in how something works earlier, and a girl will generally learn to read first.\n   And this question is not only asked in grade school, it's asked by psychologists around the world to better understand human development, and when the best time to start teaching which curiculum at what time in the teaching process.\n    After about age 16 - 22 most females and males in learning patterns are close to the same (averagly speaking)
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Generally girls are far more verbal and conversational at an earlier age.  This makes them appear much smarter than boys of the same age in social situations.  Women are more intuitive and practical, less theoretical than men.  This is a wise provision of our creators, I have come to think.\n\nGuy are more interested in inanimate materials and on the average are more logical than intuitive.  Guys develop more slowly, but they have to keep working when they are the same age as gals who are having children.  So guys have a longer learning experience that does not involve the experience of childbearing (pregnancy).  Therefore, it appears that men know more about other things as time wears on.\n\nBut this is not always the case in the modern world.  Sometimes the wife is a doctor who works and the man takes care of the kids.\n\nThe angels say that men and women are equal but different enough so that they will never completely understand each other.\n\nI think women take offense easier because they are more emotionally sensitive.  So, nice men like me are careful how they talk to women when we become older and wiser.\n\nI guess this is not a very satisfactory answer, but I am 61 and a man who has thought about it a lot.  I am certainly not stupid, look here:\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/ki_te_moana\n\nbut when I was younger, I think the gals were far ahead of me.\n\nGods plan is for us to be equal.  So we probably are in ways which we do not quite understand.\n\nI only wrote about what I know for sure.\n\nI don't know everything either.
425587
I don't understand what this has to do with figuring out if girls are smarter than boys.
908242
both women and men are wise, only that women have intuition..i think this makes them a bit smarter...or not :))..still..i didn't get the question
476702
Depends on the context\nBoys are, generally speaking, superior athletes\nwhile\ngirls, generally speaking, are superior journalists.\n\nI could go on with these comparisons, but I think you get the idea, we all have our strengths and weaknesses and some of them are linked to our gender.\n\n*******Mozart-n-Me\nPlease read someone's post carefully before you attempt to correct, I chose my words carefully so that essentially your rebuttal makes you look extremely ignorant as you are just repeating what I said.\ni.e.\nI did NOT say ALL boys are more athletic than girls
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It is true that women still get paid less than men and very few women are holding leadership position. However, the Vitorian perception that men are "naturally" smarter and more intellectually capable than women is no longer held to be true. In fact, there are more elected female leaders (in the world) right now than at any point in history. The fact that these leaders receive strong supports from both male and female constituents shows the rising level of respects that men have for women as intellectual partners. As further proof, recent surveys indicate that the majority of men think that women are just as intellectually capable than they are. Today's women have earned the respect as intellectual co-equal.
605003
Girls are smarter at the outset but that is their nature in the long run they are normally incorrect if she has no gender complications.  Guys do not like telling half truths besides girls still hate rejection as this society still treats them the same as yesterday.
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The truth: Boys are stupid.\n\nThats it, I am a guy and I know thats how some guys are.\n\n\n\nNote: that some guys are not like that.
11849
I would venture to guess it's because boys are not girls.
689474
No -- a gifted child might have exceptional intellect, but they still need to socialize and interact with kids of all developmental stages.  Just because a kid is smart doesn't mean they should only play with other super smart kids.  Plus, any sort of segregation really never benefits anyone.
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It is said that boys generally excel in math and science and girls excel in reading and english. But I don't know if I believe that. My 9 year old makes straight A's in all subjects and math and science is her favorite.
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It depends on the age of the girl and boy in question.\nGirls develop more quickly, but by the time they are in middle school there is no statistical difference in intelligence. \nAs adults, there is no difference in IQ at all.
1097700
Whoa people. Let's not get nasty. I think that there are some great examples from both sexes of real intellect. Not all men think that they're smarter. I have had some real good discussions with women and I feel that there are some very brilliant female minds out there. Those men who "think" that they are should put their money where their mouths are!! I would bet on most women. I consider myself smart, however, I am sure that there's a women somewhere who's smarter. I won't make her feel bad that she is however. And I, will never gloat like a jack***!!!!
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I have never heard that before. My husband has a much higher I.Q. than I do and our male son is very smart. More so than I was as a child. On his Kindergarten placement test he scored 99% nationwide. I was a B student growing up and if I really applied myself could pull of an A or two. I definitely attribute his intelligence to his dad.
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Guys make much better friends than girls.
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I do not think the question of better applies.  Consider the matter this way: The human mind in general has been deemed as equivalent organ between the sexes; with respect to its general psychological functions.  However, when incorporating real-world data one can see that maps over-the-span-of-human-time have basically been of the males' world.  Like hunters during the hunting and gathering times, travelers to places afar, explorers charting new lands, and the like, therefore, safe to say males as a group still do yet read more maps than do females.  I've no doubt there exists a female such as she can equally well read and interpret a specific map as can the best male.
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ya anyone who pays attention in science class should know that, which is why i don't understand why males think they are better than females, they aren't, we are essentially equal