What stereotypes have you found to not be true?

[DSeid]

FWIW responding to the developmental divvying up hijack in a new thread.

Development buckets; gender bias/differences; visuospatial and verbal skills

Continuing the discussion from What stereotypes have you found to not be true?: I was honestly surprised that the basic premise was at all controversial, but it was! To me it is simply that the average child averages out to be average but is rarely average at all things. Of course some kids average out higher than the mean, and some lower. That overall capacity seems to be fairly stable across time (see stability of the crude proxy of IQ, for example); we can teach kids to better reach their p…