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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
girls mature earlier than boys and so tend to put more effort in to their early education than boys. Simple really.
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That's closer to the real truth; boys are more easily distracted at an early age and don't properly hit their learning "stride" until the late teens or even early 20's. Also the education methods are geared towards girls (male and female brains learn differently) simply because they are more attentive and "easier to teach" in general. Clever girls tend to do well, many clever boys do too of course, but what you will also find (if you look a little closer) is a lot of very intelligent boys completely "slipping through the net" and failing to achieve any sort of real education at all... which tends not to happen with girls anywhere near as often.
What I said above is true also though, though not in the extremes I might have made out. There's a more scattered range of intelligence with boys than with girls. You will of course get very intelligent and seriously challenged pupils of both genders, but across a wider population, there are more "above average" intelligence males than females and at the same time more "straight up thick sorry" males than females... with females instead tending to be clustered around the "slightly-above-average" range across the board.