Talk:Sex differences in memory

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 September 2019 and 18 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Christopherson94, Eeichmann139.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 03:27, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Poor source for short-term memory claim

In the article, this claim:

• Females have been shown to have consistently stronger short-term or working memory than men. Women are thought to be able to hold more items of verbal information in short-term storage at once. This advantage in short-term memory is thought to be linked to women’s superior ability to attend to more than one task at once, or ‘multitask’.

Is backed up by a study that contained only six participants. I don't think that's nearly strong enough to present to readers.

--Benhirsch42 (talk) 06:50, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

In addition, the study is clearly not taken from a peer-reviewed journal. This section should be rewritten if peer-reviewed sources supporting the claim exist or else removed.

Brvman (talk) 21:13, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

data&opinions

A lot of cases really should separate data and interpretation(!opinion!) of data: data:

• Semantic verbal fluency is another aspect of explicit memory. A verbal fluency test checks ability to recall facts about the world, and general knowledge such as vocabulary. When asked to list words that start with the same letter or are in the same semantic category, women are able to produce more words than men. This is most likely due to differing styles of recall. Women tend to have a more even balance between clustering (generating words within subcategories) and switching (shifting between clusters) which allows them to come up with more words. Men switch categories less often and tend to make clusters with more words in them.

interpretation:

• This is not as efficient a strategy as the one generally employed by women.

well I can invent my own interpretation from the data too:

• Smaller clusters and more switching means = less logical clustering and less thought out thoughts and harder to see the bigger picture; pretty much chaotic, but good at random unrelated tasks. (listing words that start with the same letter, but lack any associative categorizing connection).
• Larger clusters and less switching = more logical (categorizing) clustering, better thought out thoughts and can see bigger picture; bad at chaotic tasks, that lack logic (listing words...)

They should repeat the test but with words that are related to logical categories, rather than purely linguistic. 22:30, 3 June 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gendalv (talk • contribs)

Improvements in Media and Content.

This portion of the article could use a lot of work. There are no photos with this articles, so it would be beneficial to add photos that correspond to the information. It would be helpful to include brain scan images, or graphs proving their arguments. It would give the reader a better image of what they're reading about. Also, though the article's content is generally relevant to the topic as well as current, there is some content that seems to be missing. In the History of Research, the end of the first paragraph trails off, not finishing the sentence. This needs to be improved, as the information is not complete. Mrs. Yelnats (talk) 23:55, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Article overall evaluation

Despite the weaknesses of the article, I found the content clear, linear, and easy to understand. The biggest concern is visual imagery, which plays an important role in the publication of an article, especially on a platform such as Wikipedia. The topic of sex differences in memory is interesting, yet more research should be shown. Something that could have been added would have been the topic of "encoding strategies among sexes" and report research studies about the matter. Fdaleo (talk) 04:33, 25 January 2020 (UTC)fdaleo

Primary sources

This article needs to have WP:SECONDARY sources added; see WP:MEDRS. Mathglot (talk) 18:35, 2 December 2021 (UTC)