The estimate of a time span (durée) in a group of children from rural and urban environment

Abstract

Two groups, both and urban, of 25 children aged ten, have been asked to evaluate two temporal intervals (durée). In the first one the time was filled
watching some colour slides; in the second, subjects were inactive. The scores are not different at any leve1 of signification neither between intervals nor between groups. However, there is a significant difference in scores when sexes are taken into account. This leads to us hipothesize that females hipervaluate the «duréen of intervals when some activity is undertaken during them (temps plein).