6.14.2011

Intelligence: Who has greater "Brain Power" Boys or Girls???!!!???

Good Evening to All!!! =)

I would like to know if many of you agree with the following (What are your personal thoughts and feelings):

According to Halperm, 2004, 2006; Hedges & Nowell, 1995; Maccoby & Jacklin, 1974,
      "Girls are often slightly better at verbal tasks as reading and writing."


According to Benbow, Lubinski, Shea and Eftekhari-Sanjani, 2000,
      "Especially after puberty, boys perform somewhat better on some tasks involving visual-
       spatial , and adolescents with extremely high mathematical ability are more likely to be male 
       than females!"


I personally agree with the statement above because with personal experience, I am WAAAYYYY better with tasks such as reading and writing, yet my best friend (a boy) is a "math geek"!

Posted by: Elizabeth Gonzalez

1 comments:

ekapl001 said...

I agree and disagree with those statements. In my personal experience I have always done better in reading and writing tasks and struggled in mathematical tasks. I have seen males around me who seem to excel at mathematical tasks and do poorly in writing and reading however, I have also seen males struggle in math and do well in reading so it varies.