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How do you know the teacher is wrong based on science? Do you have citations? "Boys and girls are wired differently" seems like an eminently plausible statemen
by umanwizard 9y ago
How do you know the teacher is wrong based on science? Do you have citations?
"Boys and girls are wired differently" seems like an eminently plausible statement -- it applies to the rest of our bodies, so why not to our brains? I don't think it can be rejected out of hand without a solid argument (or reputable studies) to the contrary.
- ch4s3 9y agoIt's so vague as to be unfalsifiable, and therefore an unscientific claim. By the same reasoning, it's plausible that our brains are powered by yet undiscovered magic. The teacher made a nonsense, and unscientific claim. Do you have citations to back up your "argument", or are you just trolling?
- umanwizard 9y agoI'm not claiming that my argument is correct and hence I don't need citations. I'm merely claiming that it's intuitively plausible enough that it doesn't make sense to dismiss out of hand as obviously wrong.
- ch4s3 9y agoI'm responding that lots of things are intuitively plausible, because that's an incredibly low bar. When you're trying to make decisions about how to educate people for example, leaning on presuppositions that are just "intuitively plausible" is lazy thinking and I would argue that for any serious matter you should dismiss out of hand such lazy thinking.
- umanwizard 9y agoWell, I agree :). I don't want it to appear that I'm claiming there are differences in brain structure on average between men and women -- I'm just curious what science has been done.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> "Boys and girls are wired differently" seems like an eminently plausible statement That premise, while perhaps controversial in some corners, seems essential problematic than the conclusion it was offered to support (which it doesn't.)