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Maybe, but they're often wildly overstated. There are many more exceptions and variations than those who would generalize will admit. This is anecdotal, but I'm
by sabat 16y ago
Maybe, but they're often wildly overstated. There are many more exceptions and variations than those who would generalize will admit. This is anecdotal, but I'm an example of what I'm talking about: higher verbal scores than math, as right-brained as I am left-brained -- and I'm male.
- hugh3 16y agoSome of them are often wildly overstated, others are kept hidden. In polite society you can only mention a difference between male and female cognition if it either (a) advantages females or (b) it is strictly neutral. See also: Larry Summers. Also there's some evidence of differences in cognition between different races; you definitely can't mention these in polite society so I'm not going to. See also: The Bell Curve, and that chick at Harvard Law who got reprimanded by the Dean for something she said in a private email. Of course all these actual cognitive differences don't really matter since intragroup variability vastly swamps intergroup variability. The only interesting and significant differences between male and female minds are not in the way they solve abstract problems but in ... pretty much all the other stuff (emotional makeup, desires, responses to events, sociability, et cetera).
- d0mine 16y agointragroup variability vastly swamps intergroup variability </quote> It should be the opening for any discussion on such topics.