While boys as well as girls could be classified as constructed knowers, these data show a sharp contrast between different performance groupings: it appears as I suggested in Chapter 3 that students in different sets develop significantly different epistemologies of mathematics. This difference is cross-cut by a gender difference in self-positioning, however: top set girls show a tendency to interpret a "constructed knower" outlook as vulnerability and failure in a way which is similar to that of the undergraduate women. The pattern that emerges here is complex, then, and it becomes more so when we look at the primary school data.