Maybe I misunderstand you, but: > We also want to avoid jumping to some bad conclusions like "female humans naturally lack ambition" Why is it a bad conclusio

Maybe I misunderstand you, but: > We also want to avoid jumping to some bad conclusions like "female humans naturally lack ambition" Why is it a bad conclusion? Maybe it's the truth (for arguably narrow definition of ambition). You don't want to get wrong conclusions from the research (whether you jump to them or not), but you cannot pick in advance which conclusion is morally good or bad. Preferences simply are somehow. I actually think we should consider psychological research into group differences to be unscientific, unless it is firmly based on biology. Ideally, these studies should be based on DNA rather than gender or race or religion or ethnicity. You can research preferences of people if you need to know them, but you shouldn't correlate them to some social group. I don't think society needs that kind of results apart from dinner conversations, because these results cannot inform the policy, which should be to respect everybody's preferences equally.