The paper was reporting on some UK research into brainpower published in the Journal of Neuroscience. "Despite looking like mini-adults, adolescents have developing brains that are similar to those of young children, making them less organised and more susceptible to distractions than older people," continued the Mail.
It was no surprise the paper illustrated the piece with pictures of fictional adolescents Kevin the Teenager and his chum Perry and referred to the characters famously brought to life by Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke. "Their actions - or lack of them - and those of millions of teenagers are explained away by the grey matter theory," said the paper. "However, while they find it more difficult to concentrate, it is not impossible."
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