It seems more likely that a third variable is effecting both reading amount and education performance for boys. A shot in the dark guess could be that the atte

It seems more likely that a third variable is effecting both reading amount and education performance for boys. A shot in the dark guess could be that the attention industry (and the ad industry in general) is better at targeting boys grabbing them away from both homework and at home reading at a greater scale then the other genders.