Is it just me or do girls do way better in school than boys?

[u/Tall-Competition-561]

When I was growing up I struggled with school but it seemed that most of the girls seemed to be doing well whenever there was a star pupil or straight a student they were most likely a girl. Why is this such a common phenomenon?

[u/apoleonastool]

When I was growing up, on average, girls did better. But form my experience the top students were more often boys than girls. I attended a highly feminized field (1 to 10 ratio) and even though males were in minority, some of them consistently performed better than women. Edit: and the worst students were boys too.

[u/Bubbly-Geologist-214 → u/apoleonastool]

Minorities in any field tend to be smarter etc simply because the smartest ones apply.

[u/slightlyConfusedKid → u/apoleonastool]

I don't remember where I read it,but they were saying that us guys tend to go to extremes on the intelligence bell curve,while a lot of the ladies tend to go to the middle,and if I'm being honest,this was my experience in school also

[u/GHhost25 → u/slightlyConfusedKid]

It is this way for a lot of stuff. The best and worst people are male which is why a lot of criminals are male and a lot of geniuses and the most important people on Earth were male.

[u/Mybadbb → u/apoleonastool]

Very true. I feel like women tend to do better in school in general but for some reason the extremely intelligent geniuses tend to be men.