[WOSG]

"Boys and girls have teh same average IQ. However, boys have a less pronounced center at 100. Boys are more likely to be outside of the standard range of 85-115 than girls. There are more boys with IQ's above 115 than girls, just as there are more retarded boys"

This is correct. Lack of boys in the 'high end' is a clear sign something is inducing a shift from an expected and historical distribution; for boys, the educational system is failing somehow. your 2&3 is right.

[Dianna]

I just started my admissions semester in the teaching program at my local university. My computer prof insisted that kids are just different these days! When designing handouts we should make them so that kids can "scan" them. They simply don't/can't/won't read a paper which has actual paragraphs. We should use bullets and 2 (one 1/3 down on the left and another 2/3 down on the right) graphics...making sure that the graphic is properly sized so as to not be overwhelming and distracting.

The woman insisted that we will have many, many children in our classrooms with undiagnosed ADD and sometimes she just wants to shake those kids' parents because adderal is just a LIFESAVER! I think there probably are kids who are more twitchy than the norm. We have had FReepers, who seem to be very involved and loving parents, who say their child requires medication. I believe them. But how much of this is caused by no one ever demanding that the kids learn the discipline necessary to sit down and read full sentences?