Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1918 — Quality of Memory of Boys and Girls in Early ’Teens [ARTICLE]

Quality of Memory of Boys and Girls in Early ’Teens

Some tests of hundreds of boys and girls between the ages of eleven and fourteen recently disclosed interesting results, writes a correspondent. The memories of boys up to ten years of age were infinitely better than those of the girls; after ten years the girls .leaped ahead. Then at fourteen the boys excelled the girls again. The girls were found by a large majority to have a truer idea of colors than the boys. Inaccuracies were, by a large majority, more prevalent among the girls than the boys. The moment an occurrence touched a girl’s personal interests, she at once began to exaggerate; a boy. immediately became silent or noncommittal.