As I child, my bedtime was set at 10pm and not a second later. I remember how every night I would fuse over the fact that I never could stay up late to watch television. Little did I know that my 10pm bedtime every night could affect my intelligence.
This article Children’s intellectual development: bedtime stories reports the affect that a simple bedtime could have on a child. A project called the Millennium Cohort Study took place in order to prove the theory. They brought in a group of kids ranging from ages up to seven years old.
With later study it was reported that “children that had reached the age of seven, not having had a regular bedtime did seem to affect their cognition, even when other pertinent variables such as bedtime reading, bedroom televisions and parents’ socioeconomic status were controlled for”. Therefore, a constant time to sleep for a child at young age is crucial for their development, if they are female.
Further research shows that although the IQ scale of girls who had a bedtime were boosted by 8-9 points more than those without a common bedtime. Although this had affected young girls, it did not do the same to boys. The boys with irregular betimes had an almost similar IQ level as those with a consistent.
From this article it is seen that there is a huge gap between boys and girls, not only physically, but intellectually as well. Though the reason for this difference is still unknown, it’s still such a bewildering fact.
This is mostly all just plot summary. I have a problem with a part of your analysis as well. In the last sentence of the third paragraph, you stated a point and then ended with, "...if they are female". No where did you state that you were only talking about girls vs boys before that statement, so it felt weird.
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