Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Do Girls Think Boys Are Smarter?
By Hansa Bhargava
As a pediatrician, I enjoy talking with my patients about school. Recently, I saw a 9-year-old girl and asked about her favorite subject. She smiled and told me art, and then proceeded to say she didn’t like math. When asked why, she responded that she wasn’t very good at it.
Girls of all ages have internal biases about their abilities and can have low self-esteem more frequently than boys their own age. Now, recently published research seems to suggest girls think boys are smarter than they are, starting at about age 6.
https://blogs.webmd.com/breaking-news/2017/01/do-girls-think-boys-are-smarter.html
