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168 – Men and Masculinity (Part 2)

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The Problem With Redshirting Boys

There's no difference if anything boys score a little bit higher on standardized testing girls, although that difference is almost disappeared. So there's basically no gap on standardized testing, but there's a huge achievement gap in school. And that is because we're boys develop less, less quickly or on a later curve than girls are around like self regulation. This is why young boys do stupid shit more than young girls. Their prefrontal cortex just doesn't develop as fast.

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