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Probably because boys are more often diagnosed with ADHD compared to girls.
by nprz 6y ago
Probably because boys are more often diagnosed with ADHD compared to girls.
- hammock 6y agoDo you believe diagnoses are causing performance decreases?
- xondono 6y agoThis is not a cause, but a consequence. Attitudes and norms around how school have changed a lot, and the modern school severely penalizes boys. For instance it was typical for schools to encourage competition between students, but this is very frown upon in most places nowadays. For a lot of boys, the drive to compete is pretty much the only positive thing keeping them focused on schoolwork. Another typical trend has been to reduce and to almost eliminate the amount of multiple choice testing and to change it to written questions. There’s evidence enough to claim that this significantly penalizes boys (specially in the 10 to 14 age range) due to developmental reasons. The difference in ADHD diagnosis is easy to explain. As we’ve moved our expectations of kid behavior from what “the typical boy does” to “what the typical girl does”, a lot of perfectly normal boy behavior is reinterpreted as ADHD.
- souprock 6y agoCompetition is simply prohibited. It used to be that grades were posted publicly, for all to see. Instructors aren't allowed to do that anymore.