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Isn't "brain structure [characteristic of a] sex" basically pseudoscience? We're rocking different hormone mixtures and maybe slightly different average skull
by catalogia 7y ago
Isn't "brain structure [characteristic of a] sex" basically pseudoscience? We're rocking different hormone mixtures and maybe slightly different average skull sizes, but I'm under the impression that the later at least doesn't manifest in any measurable innate cognitive differences between males and females. That stuff went out the window with phrenology I think.
- chroma 7y agoIf you look at MRIs of human brains, you can determine the sex with pretty high accuracy. Researchers have even trained machine learning algorithms to differentiate with >90% accuracy.[1] Researchers have tried this on transgender brains and come up with mostly noise. When they do find differences, it appears that the brains of trans-women are unlike cis-women. Ditto for trans-men.[2] I am very confident that there is a ton of publication bias in any transgender research. If you publish a politically incorrect result, you risk your career. 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30430711 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30430711 2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337026445_Predictive_Pattern_Classification_Can_Distinguish_Gender_Identity_Subtypes_from_Behavior_and_Brain_Imaging https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337026445_Predictiv...