A study finds newborn girls can focus for longer than boys. The report says the attention difference is detectable immediately after birth, based on observations of how long infants can maintain attention during testing.
The Daily Mail frames the findings as indicating a gender-linked difference in attention from the start of life. Other details about the study design—such as sample size, the specific attention tasks used, the age of participants at testing, and how results are statistically evaluated—are not provided in the excerpts. As presented, the coverage emphasizes the early onset of the gap, rather than exploring possible causes, variation within groups, or implications for later development.
