SOCB26H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Blue Brain Project, Totalitarianism, High School Diploma
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More likely disengaged 15 year old boys are more likely to say school is easte of ime and less likely say that trying hard is important. Their atendance is not as good as girls more likely to skip or be late. Gender gap on doing homework boys spend less ime doing homework, regardless of workload. On average in north america, girls do 5. 5 hours/week of homework, while boys do 4. 5 hours/week. However, boys do beter in science/math in general. Spending ime on games + internet boys spend more ime on games while girls hardly play. Standardized tests on the computer are scored beter by boys than girls. Reading habits girls are more likely to read than boys. Boys prefer to read comic books and newspapers. Girls are willing to read anything for leisure. Lower aspiraion in careers girls has more expectaions and ambiion for higher status jobs. However, they may not necessarily achieve their goals.
