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> Which actually makes sense. if we are made up of influences from nature and nurture and you remove one of those influences, differences in the other becomes m
by Hasu 7y ago
> Which actually makes sense. if we are made up of influences from nature and nurture and you remove one of those influences, differences in the other becomes more clear. its not rocket science but somehow people are still surprised by it.
It's not clear that differences in nurture are actually being removed, though. Just because people are free to do what they want regardless of their sex, does not mean that nurture has been removed as a variable. What people want has very much to do with their experiences in life and how people have treated them based on preconceived notions of what they 'should' do.
In more plain terms: from birth, males and females are treated differently and live with different expectations. Teasing the effect of those differences out from the effect of biological differences does not seem possible without unethical controlled experiments that would involve raising a group of children without any influence from adults who already have preconceived notions and expectations of differences between sexes. You'd need computerized parenting that treats all the children the same from birth, without exposure to the culture and history of humanity. That would give us a better understanding of inherent biological differences between the sexes, but it would be horrifically unethical. I don't think we're anywhere close to being capable of doing it technologically, not to mention the technological and sociological challenges involved in having humans create something that could raise human children without any of the human biases we all share.
I'm not saying I don't think there are inherent biological differences in personality between the sexes, I'm saying they're inevitably conflated with non-biological differences, and our science is nowhere near advanced enough to reliably distinguish the true origin of any given difference we can detect.