This link here is to a Language Log post by Mark Liberman. In a nutshell: there is a guy called Leonard Sax who is a strong advocate of single sex public education, and as such, is always looking for scientific evidence that shows that boys are different from girls. Guess what: most of his "scientific" evidence is either misused or exaggerated. Mark Liberman is a linguist from UPenn who is very good at comparing media reports of a scientific finding with the original journal articles, usually showing that the media didn't get it (or are using it to put forth some agenda).
Anyway, here is the original post.
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