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No Meaningful Differences in Male and Female Brains This is a pathetic contra-science claim. I have no idea whether women brains have on average a advantage or
by The_rationalist 5y ago
No Meaningful Differences in Male and Female Brains
This is a pathetic contra-science claim.
I have no idea whether women brains have on average a advantage or a disadvantage at scientific/engineering cognitive tasks.
However it is clear that there are meaningful differences in specific tasks, see ->
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_cognition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_cognition
There are also many known empirical results (that are not necessarily caused by brain difference but could very well be)
study2 of samples of university students, in which we found that the average IQ of men is 4.6 points higher than that of women
Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, and the prevalence of anxiety disorders is significantly higher for women (23.4 percent) than men (14.3 percent).
Males are generally more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than females, with a male to female ratio of approximately 4:1 in community samples.
About twice as many women as men experience depression.
Globally, death by suicide occurred about 1.8 times more often among males than among females in 2008, and 1.7 times in 2015.[4][5][6] In the western world, males die by suicide three to four times more often than do females.[4]
A way to determine if some of those effects are causative would be to monitor cognitive performance alterations in trans people.
To me the greatest possible advantage of a woman brain would be a higher verbal fluency.
If hormone changes could make someone's brain win some of the advantage from one gender to another, then he could periodically in its life by changing gender be more optimal at certain cognitive tasks. (of course I don't recommend doing that lol)