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Testosterone has a direct, measurable effect on competitiveness and aggressiveness. Why wouldn't you think this would affect the overall sports preference betwe
by TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
Testosterone has a direct, measurable effect on competitiveness and aggressiveness. Why wouldn't you think this would affect the overall sports preference between the sexes? In an environment where men have significantly higher testosterone than women, wouldn't there naturally be more men than women in an aggressive sport like football? Would you expect a 50% gender parity in such an environment?
Culture plays an effect, but we really need to realize that biology probably pays a role too, and potentially affects gender parities in many careers.
- tptacek 9y agoThis is a just-so story. Given the same scientific information in 1950, we might have predicted a continued aversion to science in women (unless you also believe the women of 1950 to be biologically different to today's modern superwomen). But the exact opposite thing happened, in almost every field --- except CS, which has lost women over the past decade.