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em_are_young t1_iz22ghi wrote

Reply to comment by LoyalaTheAargh in Baby girls babble their way to bigger vocabularies sooner than baby boys, but it’s not because parents talk to them more, instead parents appear to talk more to young children who themselves are already talking, regardless of their gende by giuliomagnifico

Could it be that the “chattiest few hours of each recording” are not different for boys and girls but there are differences in the less chatty hours that accumulate to larger differences over time? Seems like the easiest explanation to me.

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garbage-pale-kid t1_iz37cok wrote

I wonder if it's related to the physical differences in what boys vs girls are allowed to experience. At least in my life, I saw and see little girls who are made to sit, be careful. I knew girls who couldn't ride bikes and girls who had to wear skirts, which are limiting, physically. They're also treated as more fragile than boys, and altogether that would give them more time to think about things and develop in that aspect.

While boys who run, play, ride bikes, and are more allowed to play rough would spend more time on that aspect of development. Just a theory.

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em_are_young t1_iz39agi wrote

This study suggests girls pick up language better even though they aren’t practicing more. Your mechanism could be true only if, like i was suggesting, the study was selecting data that wouldn’t show gender differences even though they are there in the other hours.

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garbage-pale-kid t1_iz39mtk wrote

Practicing more, no, and maybe it doesn't but maybe more time to have internal dialogue counts towards practicing more.

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rampartsblueglare t1_iz48orl wrote

It is interesting to me as a parent and teacher that boys trend behind in grades and reading ability and college admittance but trend higher on the payscales. Probably a bit of practicality and a bit of societal influence imo

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lastingfreedom t1_iz4cewa wrote

All dogs are boys and all cats are girls.

We need to be able to identify when we are believing something that is a fallacy.

Why are things the way they are and do they need to change?

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