Looking at it scientifically has done the opposite, and largely dispelled the illusion of any major difference, surely? Any net difference on some cognitive or

Looking at it scientifically has done the opposite, and largely dispelled the illusion of any major difference, surely? Any net difference on some cognitive or personality index is swamped with variation within each either sex. If we're going to deny women from taking loans for being too X, or deny men from owning guns for being too Y, then we should probably also ban about 80% of the other sex too -- they, individually, would be over the median line. This is human height distribution by sex: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/06/distribution-1-775x550.png https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/06/distribution-1-77... One of the most dramatic sexual divergences in humans. With personality it seems to follow that basic pattern. Even with the men usually having a wider variation, as noted elsewhere in this thread. Except with psych indexes and metrics, it's usually even more overlapped. So overlapped it's often hard to tell if it's a statistical illusion! In many cases there seems to be no difference at all. So, really it's more like such research points more to that we're close to indistinguishable. Sex alone would not give you a great deal of information about someone's mind or personality or mental abilities. This is the very opposite of a basis to argue for unequal treatment for half of the population. Will some still try to justify an absurd and unjustifiable thing on the basis of such data? Probably. But they could just invent complete pseudoscience too. Misuse by morally deranged actors has never been a too compelling reason to not do social research, surely?