WHO IS SMARTER, A BOY OR A GIRL? Sarah Santana 8/23/12 Humanities MCLA 8th Grade Who is Smarter??

Tezkatlipoka- Self Reflection Some of the questions I thought about were: What is smartness? Who defines it? Do test scores stratify? My research question was: Who do 1st through 3rd graders think is smarter, a boy or a girl? I was interested in this topic because I, as a girl, wanted to debunk the theory that guys are smarter than girls.

Quetzalcoatl- Precious Knowledge- Literature Review Ancient Times: It was in this time that humans first had the idea that the brain was the organ that controls thought Darwin thought that smartness was needed for human evolution His nephew Galton thought that intelligence ran in families. Scientists tried to prove that other races were smarter due to phrenology

Quetzalcoatl (Part 2) Scientists soon made fake experiments called pseudoscience, fake science to prove a point, some of these experiments were: The skull and gravel experiment and the head sizes experiment Later, a man named Binet made an IQ test which caused stratification and stereotype threats, to make different races feel inferior and dumb.

Huitzilopotchli- The Will to Act I had very interesting results, I interviewed 100 1st through 3rd graders, and: 67% of the kids said girls were smarter, while 33% said boys were smarter, red is kids who said boys, yellow is kids who said girls

Xipe Totek- Transformation These results helped me see that little kids debunk the theory that guys are smarter Hopefully now we will have women in more powerful positions This research helped me debunk the theory of male superiority.

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