# Gender gap in spatial reasoning starts in elementary school, meta-analysis finds

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**Created:** [April 12, 2019, 3:36am UTC](https://archive.menshealtharchive.com/t/gender-gap-in-spatial-reasoning-starts-in-elementary-school-meta-analysis-finds/2241 "2019-04-12T03:36:21Z")\
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> **[Gender gap in spatial reasoning starts in elementary school, meta-analysis...](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190411154728.htm)**
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> Males gain a slight advantage in mental-rotation performance during the first years of formal schooling, and this advantage slowly grows with age, tripling in size by the end of adolescence.

  
Males gain a slight advantage in mental-rotation performance during the first years of formal schooling, and this advantage slowly grows with age, tripling in size by the end of adolescence.