{"id":10340,"date":"2019-10-01T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=10340"},"modified":"2019-10-02T17:03:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T21:03:14","slug":"why-are-boys-so-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/10\/01\/why-are-boys-so-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are boys so dumb?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10012019-3.jpg\" alt=\"Why are boys so dumb?\" class=\"wp-image-10332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10012019-3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10012019-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10012019-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10012019-3-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Why are boys so dumb?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve met my share of dumb boys, girls, walls, floors, ceilings&#8230; Sounds like you&#8217;ve had a frustrating experience with a male human, or perhaps several. It&#8217;s certainly true that research points to some men not being socialized to value emotional intelligence as highly as some women. Is that what you&#8217;re talking about? You might be interested in the book Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid, by Robert Sternberg (O&#8217;Neill Library BF431 .W535 2002).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve met my share of dumb boys, girls, walls, floors, ceilings&#8230; Sounds like you&#8217;ve had a frustrating experience with a male human, or perhaps several. It&#8217;s certainly true that research points to some men not being socialized to value emotional intelligence as highly as some women. Is that what you&#8217;re talking about? You might be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/10\/01\/why-are-boys-so-dumb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why are boys so dumb?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10369,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions\/10369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}