Gender, what does it tell us? It doesn't furnish as much information as previously theorized. One's sex does provide details of biological makeup, but it isn't a predictor of an individual's interests, emotional characteristics, or academic skills and abilities, as we were once led to believe. In fact, girls as a group and boys as a group are more alike than they are different, but research design and theory is based on the concept of "…showed first 75 words of 2773 total…

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