Men lost far from women in the speed of job handling

In time-consuming missions, girls are always far ahead. ( Photo: Pac.dodea ) A study of 8,000 people aged 2 to 90 found that women handled jobs in a given time much faster than men. This difference is most pronounced in adolescence and before.

" If you look for someone who is capable of fulfilling a task in a time-aware situation, women have a great advantage ," said Stephen Camarata from Vanderbilt University.

However, the study did not show the general intellectual difference between the sexes.

" To truly understand a person's overall ability, it is important to look at performance in situations that do not take time ," Camarata said. He thinks teachers should pay attention to this result when girls often outperform boys at school.

" Note that many activities in the classroom, including tests, are directly or indirectly related to processing speed " - Camarata writes - " The ability to perform better in girls can contributing to creating a biased education for women, not because of the teachers' favor, but because of the inherent differences in the speed of processing between the sexes ".

The gap in processing speed between two sexes is not related to things like reaction time when playing games. " It is the ability to complete the work accurately and efficiently at moderate difficulty, " Camarata said.

Children of preschool and younger age have similar processing speeds. Differences begin to show up in elementary schools. And in the 14-18 age group, girls scored an average of 105.5 compared with 97.4 in boys.

The study also found boys always outperform girls in identifying objects, knowing antonyms and synonyms, and completing extrapolations. Researchers say that has downgraded the long-standing opinion that girls develop communication skills earlier than boys.

T. An