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There are gender differences in the brain as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_differences https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience

by NoPiece 10y ago

There are gender differences in the brain as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_differences https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_differen...

Moshe_Silnorin 10y ago
These are entirely the result of socialization. Though the body is subject to natural selection and sexual dimorphism, the brain is subject only to the laws of Lysenkoism.
- jabgrabdthrow 10y ago
  Saying "entirely" is not only demonstrably false but ultimately harmful if we are talking about pay gaps and irrelevance of gender for advanced mental work - people get "reactive" once they realize they have been lied to about gender differences. Some random quotes from the wiki article: "Several studies have shown the hippocampi of men and women to differ anatomically, neurochemically, and also in degree of long-term potentiation." "In accordance with the sexual dimorphism of the amygdala, the right VPMC is more dominant in an active limbic system for males while the left is more dominant in females. These differences carry out to a behavioral level." "Positron emission tomography studies have shown that men and women ranging from the ages of 19 to 32 years old metabolize glucose at significantly different rates in the orbital prefrontal cortex. Infant males who exhibited lesions on their orbital prefrontal cortex struggled with object reversal experiments, but females exhibiting such lesions did not have impaired performance in object reversal."
  - Bartweiss 10y ago
    The "Lysenkoism" bit makes me pretty confident he's being sarcastic. That was the Stalinist rejection of Mendelian genetics, so it's a claim that mental differences are governed by a totally invalid theory.
    - jabgrabdthrow 10y ago
      haha, oops. Internet
- jshevek 10y ago
  Poe's law? Your comment history suggests greater depth of thought than this comment suggests.
  - WalterSear 10y ago
    It's obviously sarcasm.
- carsongross 10y ago
  > These are entirely the result of socialization. Entirely? That's an incredibly strong claim. Do you have any evidence for this assertion? Is such an assertion even plausible, if you are objective about it?

by NoPiece 10y ago

There are gender differences in the brain as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_differences https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_differen...

Moshe_Silnorin 10y ago

These are entirely the result of socialization. Though the body is subject to natural selection and sexual dimorphism, the brain is subject only to the laws of Lysenkoism.

jabgrabdthrow 10y ago
Saying "entirely" is not only demonstrably false but ultimately harmful if we are talking about pay gaps and irrelevance of gender for advanced mental work - people get "reactive" once they realize they have been lied to about gender differences. Some random quotes from the wiki article: "Several studies have shown the hippocampi of men and women to differ anatomically, neurochemically, and also in degree of long-term potentiation." "In accordance with the sexual dimorphism of the amygdala, the right VPMC is more dominant in an active limbic system for males while the left is more dominant in females. These differences carry out to a behavioral level." "Positron emission tomography studies have shown that men and women ranging from the ages of 19 to 32 years old metabolize glucose at significantly different rates in the orbital prefrontal cortex. Infant males who exhibited lesions on their orbital prefrontal cortex struggled with object reversal experiments, but females exhibiting such lesions did not have impaired performance in object reversal."
- Bartweiss 10y ago
  The "Lysenkoism" bit makes me pretty confident he's being sarcastic. That was the Stalinist rejection of Mendelian genetics, so it's a claim that mental differences are governed by a totally invalid theory.
  - jabgrabdthrow 10y ago
    haha, oops. Internet
jshevek 10y ago
Poe's law? Your comment history suggests greater depth of thought than this comment suggests.
- WalterSear 10y ago
  It's obviously sarcasm.
carsongross 10y ago
> These are entirely the result of socialization. Entirely? That's an incredibly strong claim. Do you have any evidence for this assertion? Is such an assertion even plausible, if you are objective about it?