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Title
Do your boys fight with sticks, Nerf guns and fake swords all the time? Here’s why they do it
Published by
The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.g3ee7smg9
Authors

Nagel, Michael

Abstract

An expert in child development explains why some kids are prone to pick up the nearest stick – or even banana – and turn it into a weapon.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 September 2024.
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#2,022,354
of 34,409,383 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#156,661
of 213,032 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,409,383 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 213,032 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 99.0. This one is in the 26th percentile – i.e., 26% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.