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Re:Told reading tests are a game, boys score higher by tremon on Saturday May 07, 2016 @06:24PM (#11651616)
Not entirely: boys did better in a non-competitive setting, but girls performed equally in both settings.
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Re:Told reading tests are a game, boys score higher by WalterSear on Saturday May 07, 2016 @08:10PM (#11651995)
>In classes given reading evaluations, boys made an average of 33.3 correct answers compared with 43.3 by the girls. But when the tests were framed as animal games, boys’ average scores were significantly higher: 44.7 compared with 38.3 for the girls.

Girls performed worse in the non-competitive setting.

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Re:Told reading tests are a game, boys score higher by tremon on Saturday May 07, 2016 @08:37PM (#11652058)
Ah, I stand corrected. I had understood the differences with the girls were insignificant, but it doesn't appear to be.
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