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Authors: Ashley Montagu

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Girls do better than boys in code-learning tests.
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Girls show a highly significant superiority in handling linguistic relations, as in the test requiring them to construct an artificial language. (Here the subject is given a short vocabulary and a few grammatical rules, and is then required to translate a brief passage in English into the artificial language.)
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Girls learn foreign languages much more rapidly and accurately than boys, a difference that is maintained throughout life.
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Girls excel in most tests of memory. They do significantly better on tests of picture memories and such tests as copying a bead chain from memory.
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Girls tend to excel in logical rather than in rote memory, especially when the content of the test favors neither sex. The suggestion is that logical memory depends more upon verbal comprehension than upon anything else, hence the superior achievement on logical-memory tests of the female.
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Women are characterized by a more vivid mental imagery than men.
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Girls excel, on the whole, in general school achievement as measured by achievement tests and school grades.
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Girls do better than boys, on the whole, in those school subjects that depend largely upon verbal ability, memory, and perceptual speed.
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Boys do better in those subjects that depend on numerical reasoning and spatial aptitudes, as well as in certain information subjects, such as history, geography, and general science.
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Insofar as school progress is concerned, girls are consistently more successful than boys. Girls are less frequently held back, more frequently advanced, and promoted in larger numbers than boys.
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In school grading, girls consistently do better than boys, even in those subjects that favor boys.
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Girls obtaining the same achievement test scores as boys consistently had higher school grades than boys.

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