Sentences with phrase «lower than boys»

When it comes to mathematics, girls rate their abilities markedly lower than boys, even when there is no observable difference between the two, according to Florida State University researchers.

Not exact matches

They found that a lower percentage of the boys who had experienced overt rejection by their mothers eventually became alcoholics than those whose mothers were alternatively loving and rejecting.

«In fact, we were able to show that for teenage boys, full - fat dairy consumption was associated with a slightly better cholesterol profile than low - fat dairy.

Forget the quality of opposition etc and other churlish remarks but our attacking boys done good; Ramsey for Wales, Welbz for England, Alexis for Chile, Mesut for Germany — brief but bright cameos from Santi and Ollie, appearances for Theo and Poldi (Low has him inked in as an 80 min impact guy — easier to do in an international setting than at club level).

Conversely, low interest by fathers in their children's education (particularly boys) has a stronger negative impact on their achievement than contact with the police, poverty, family type, social class, housing tenure and child's personality [2].

Babies and toddlers shouldn't watch TV, an hour a day of television is a reasonable amount of time for children, aggressive boys are made more aggressive by violent video games, heavy media users get lower grades than kids who are light users and also report being less happy.

Although the risk of UTIs in the first year is low (even lower for breastfed babies), various studies suggest that UTIs may be as much as ten times more common in uncircumcised baby boys than in those who are circumcised.

The researchers did find that lower gestational age was associated with more severe flattening and that boys were more likely than girls to have severe flattening.

This condition is more common in girls than boys and is more often seen in Caucasian children — although it is also seen more frequently in babies who are born with a low birth weight, or those who are born a few weeks earlier than their due date.

But the fact is something in the genetic make up and hormones of baby boys expose them to a higher risk of autism than girls (for those who can not sleep without knowing so those weird medical terms, girls tend to have lower levels of vasopressin and higher levels of natural oxytocin).

Boys are more likely to be premature and suffer problems associated with low birth weight than girls.

These boys were 14 times more likely to go on to develop depression than those who had the lowest levels of cortisol and symptoms.

The research also showed boys, native Spanish speakers and students whose parents had lower levels of education were less likely to be reclassified than their peers.

In February 2008 a study revealed that baby boys who are born either short or with low birth weight are more likely to commit violent suicide as adults than longer and heavier babies are, irrespective of their height and weight as adults.

In sixth grade, girls in both the European French and North African French groups reported lower levels of gender typicality and felt pressure than boys; contrary to expectations, the two ethnic groups did not differ in this respect at the beginning of middle school.

Chlorpyrifos exposure had a larger association with working memory scores in the boys, who averaged three points lower than the girls with similar exposures, the study found.

Flinn has also found that boys from households without fathers (though not girls) have cortisol levels that are too low in infancy and grow slower than boys with fathers at home.

The boys with the lowest ratios also were the ones whose abilities were most skewed in the direction of math rather than literacy.

More than one third of boys with low cortisol were nominated by their peers as the «meanest» in the class, compared with 10.5 percent of boys who had at least one higher cortisol reading.

In a clinical study of nearly 100 boys, those with lower levels of omega - 3 fatty acids demonstrated more learning and behavioral problems (such as temper tantrums and sleep disturbances) than boys with normal omega - 3 fatty acid levels.

«The acne of the boys on the higher - protein, low - glycemic index diet improved dramatically,» said senior author Neil Mann, associate professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, «by more than 50 percent, which is more than what you see with topical acne solutions.»

In fact, in one study, a dose of mercury sufficient to kill 1 percent of lab rats (lethal dose «LD01»), when combined with a dose of lead sufficient to kill 1 percent, killed 100 percent of the rats.13 A similar test involving mercury and aluminum in cultured neurons killed 60 percent of the cells when the two low - dose toxicants (LD01) were combined.14 Even antibiotics have been shown to enhance the uptake, retention and toxicity of mercury.14 Additionally, testosterone appears to aggravate mercury toxicity during development, while estrogen protects against it.15 This may explain why more boys than girls are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit disorders.

3) Keep in mind when planning activities, that a boy's threshold for what he perceives as juvenile is somewhat lower than that of a girl.

Because we have so many wealthy sugar Mummy in Enugu State Nigeria and sugar boys is not enough for them, the contacts of sugar boys we have, is lower than the requests we have.

Rather than try to take on Matt Damon in space, Focus surveyed the release calendar and wisely moved «London» to Jan. 22, 2016, where it will go up against a faith - based movie starring Tom Felton, STX's low - budget thriller «The Boy» and the Kevin Costner - Ryan Reynolds crime drama «Criminal.»

There are walrus jokes, characters of questionable gender, a large Hawaiian who like to refer to Sandler as «peanut butter cups», Spam references, a man who can't remember things longer than 10 seconds, and Rob Schneider thrown in the mix to take the gags to lows — just in case the teenage boy crowd might zone out at watching the weepy, smoochy scenes.

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) published a series of studies in the 1990s called Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America, which highlighted the fact that girls aged 9 to 15 suffered from lower self - esteem, less willingness to stand up for their views with teachers, and lower interest in science and mathematics than boys.

While girls do as well as or better than boys when teachers assign grades in all three subjects, they score significantly lower on both the math and

Sommers notes that in intelligence tests, the normal distribution for boys spreads out wider at the tails than for girls — more scores at very high and very low levels, which is consistent with what President Summers was suggesting.

By socio - economic level, low - income boys tend to drop out earlier from the educational system and enter into the labor market sooner than their wealthier peers even though they face higher unemployment rates, lower income and worse employment conditions (Amarante, 2011; Bucheli, 2006).

According to UIS data, in low - income countries, more than 11 million girls of primary age are out of school, compared to almost 9 million boys.

And the NAEP data are clear, if not as dramatic as some selected state data: boys, on average, perform less well than girls on tests of reading and writing skills and low - income boys do less well than higher - income boys.

Rochester has the country's lowest high school graduation rate for minority boys, graduating less than 9 percent of African American and less than 10 percent of Latino boys.

But the report also warned that boys and girls in education systems that separate students into different types of schools tended to have «lower expectations for further education» than those in systems with a comprehensive approach to schooling.

African - American fourth - graders from low - income families scored 210 on a 500 - point scale in math — 10 points worse than poor Hispanic boys and almost 15 points worse than poor white boys.

School - related problems such as academic failure, low educational aspirations, negative labeling, and trouble at school are key risk factors for gang joining among girls, and these may be more influential for them than for boys (Peterson, 2012; Thornberry, et al., 2003).

But with black students, boys in particular, there were big differences — the white teachers had much lower expectations than black teachers for how far the black students would go in school.

Noise — whether from wind or road — is subjectively much lower in the S3 than in competitive cars, and the engine noise that does make it into the cabin has the carefully manicured feel of auditory bonsai, with boy - racer overtones totally absent.

According to a systematic review of international studies of low - speed vehicle incidents involving children, boys are more likely than girls to be injured or killed in backover crashes.

To that end, the company is building a platform that offers serialized content optimized for smartphones, for a much lower price than the subscription big boys.

Wii U is on pace to sell fewer units than any Nintendo home console in history, and 3DS, while more successful than Wii U, is on pace to be Nintendo's lowest - selling handheld of all time, unless you count the Virtual Boy.

Of course, the Game Boy had more limited capabilities than a home console, so the number of copy abilities were lowered to seven: burning, cutter, spike, ice, spark, stone and parasol.

Fugoo also handled the low - end growl on the Beastie Boys» classic «Shake Your Rump» with more detail than any portable Bluetooth speaker we've heard.

Research within clinical populations consistently finds that girls are more often abused than boys, although research focused on the broader population of community youth has not shown such gender differences in rates of physical maltreatment.72 Female offenders typically are abused before their first offense.73 Among girls in the California juvenile justice system, 92 percent report some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.74 Self - reported victimization rates among boys in the juvenile justice system are considerably lower, though boys may be more likely than girls to underreport certain forms of abuse.75 Some studies report abuse rates for males between 25 percent and 31 percent, while others report rates of 10 percent for sexual abuse and 47 percent for physical abuse.76 Closer comparison reveals that delinquent males and females tend to report different types of traumas as well.

Obese girls scored lower in these domains than obese boys and also had reduced perceived social acceptance.

Though there are numerous putative risk factors, many of which overlap, certain of them are particularly salient or even unique to females.65 In addition, some analysts have noted an apparent «gender paradox»: despite the lower prevalence of exposure to risk factors among females in general, those girls who are clinically referred show more severe behavior problems than boys.66

More disruptive girls tend to show less empathy than girls without behavior problems, and this deficit is greater among females than among males.95 It may be that lower levels of empathy pose a greater risk for girls than for boys because empathy strengthens the ability to foster the strong attachments and relationships that girls value more highly than boys do.96

Life expectancy is 10 years lower for Indigenous boys and 9 years lower for Indigenous girls than their non-Indigenous counterparts.

Competence differed with sex, with lower scores in boys than girls in each age group (t values = 2.22 to 4.22, p <.05), except the youngest (t = − 0.74).

Levels of CU traits moderate the link between conduct problems and parenting practices such that ineffective parenting practices such as harsh or inconsistent discipline are more strongly related to conduct problems of boys with low rather than high CU traits.