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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 - pe
by 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 agoThe "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 agohaha, oops. Internet