YOUNG SEVEN-YEARS.
Baby girls are stronger than babyboys, but more boys are born than girls. Later, however, the boys become stronger and fewer. It appears, too, that little girls are cleverer than little boys, at any rate at spelling and arithmetic, though later the boys level up and ultimately become cleverer. So it was said in a report of the Eesearch Committee on Spelling and Arithmetic at Seven Years Old to the London head teachers. Some 750 boys and a rather larger number of girls of seven were taken as the test. In reading, the average boy secured 77 marks and the averago girl 85 in a hundred. In spelling the boys got 63 and the girls 70 marks. In arithmetic, too, the girls got more marks than the boys. When tho children were told to draw a house, with door, windows, and chimney, one boy miss-read house and drew a horse. Then he saw he was to put in door, windows, and chimney; and he did ,so! Would a girl have dove that? We can hardly believe it!
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 96, 27 April 1929, Page 19
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179YOUNG SEVEN-YEARS. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 96, 27 April 1929, Page 19
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