Article about money, gender, age, and intellegence

1) Do boys and girls think differently according to the article? How?According to the article, boys performed, on average, better on perceptual analysis, while girls earned higher marks on tasks involving physical agility and processing speed. Girls were also slightly better at verbal tasks involving learning and reciting groups of nouns—however, beyond the age of 11, boys caught up to them.

2) When do most people develop most of their cognitive abilities? Is this new information for scientists? Most people develop their cognitive abilities around the ages of 11 and 12. This is new information for scientist because its recent studies.

3) Does income relate to intelligence according to this article?Income does relate to intelligence, high-income children outperformed their less wealthy peers on both IQ tests and an exam designed to replicate achievement in various academic subjects. Lower income kids performed at a lower level than others in reading comprehension and mathematical calculations but were competitive in basic cognition, memory and reading skills, indicating that poverty may affect development at the level where different abilities must be combined, such as verbal skills and memory, in the case of reading comprehension.