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sex difference appears in the description of pictures 

 and in the definition of abstract terms, and there is 

 a slight superiority of the girls in the "hard" prob- 

 lem-questions; but in all the other tests the boys 

 aiford much higher percentages of success, often 

 more than twice as high. Take, for instance, the 8- 

 year old children: more than half of the boys, but 

 not a single girl can arrange the five weights cor- 

 rectly; four-fifths of all 8-year old boys recall cor- 

 rectly what they have read, solve the easy problem- 

 questions and state correctly the difference in things 

 recalled in memory, whereas the percentage of girls 



TABLE IX 

 SEX DIFFERENCES AS SHOWN BY BINET TESTS (BLOCH AND PREISS) 



Test Age 

 Description of Pictures 



f 7 

 Memory of Story Read <{ 8 



I 9 

 Arranging Three Weights 7 



8 



g 



Arranging Five Weights -.X 



11 

 ' 8 



Easy Problem-questions \ 9 



10 

 9 



Hard Problem-questions \ 10 



11 

 Defining Abstract Terms 



f 

 Making a Sentence with Three Words \ 10 



1 11 



Arranging Words into Sentence. ... 11 

 Naming 60 Words in 3 Minutes ...'.. 



Detecting Absurdities 11 



C if 



Comparing Objects from Memory. . . . < g 



r-Percentage of-^ 

 Children Passing 



the Test 

 Boys Girls 



No difference 

 No difference 

 80 28 



No difference 



73 



56 

 66 

 70 

 77 

 81 

 90 

 100 

 25 

 70 

 70 



33 





 29 

 44 

 42 

 55 

 76 

 100 

 41 

 80 

 80 



No difference 



70 38 



82 40 



100 100 



70 33 



76 50 



77 40 

 60 50 

 80 55 



