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Difficult to control for the effects of "building toys" such as Lego being primarily marketed at boys. These types of toys help train this kind of spacial aware
by MrsPeaches 5y ago
Difficult to control for the effects of "building toys" such as Lego being primarily marketed at boys. These types of toys help train this kind of spacial awareness from an early age.
See also early computers being marketed almost exclusively at men and boys, potentially being the cause of a major drop off of women in computer sciences in the 1980s: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...
- alisonkisk 5y agoNot really. Babies show sex differences in spatial skills. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081209100948.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081209100948.h...
- relaxing 5y ago…and once they grow up?
- nickpeterson 5y agoReading that study, I’m not convinced, it’s 20 boys and girls, and the method doesn’t appear foolproof to me. To be clear, I don’t really have an issue accepting there may be some difference, but I feel like it’s extremely overstated.