em_are_young
em_are_young t1_iz22ghi wrote
Reply to comment by LoyalaTheAargh in Baby girls babble their way to bigger vocabularies sooner than baby boys, but it’s not because parents talk to them more, instead parents appear to talk more to young children who themselves are already talking, regardless of their gende by giuliomagnifico
Could it be that the “chattiest few hours of each recording” are not different for boys and girls but there are differences in the less chatty hours that accumulate to larger differences over time? Seems like the easiest explanation to me.
em_are_young t1_iz39agi wrote
Reply to comment by garbage-pale-kid in Baby girls babble their way to bigger vocabularies sooner than baby boys, but it’s not because parents talk to them more, instead parents appear to talk more to young children who themselves are already talking, regardless of their gende by giuliomagnifico
This study suggests girls pick up language better even though they aren’t practicing more. Your mechanism could be true only if, like i was suggesting, the study was selecting data that wouldn’t show gender differences even though they are there in the other hours.