I don’t like comments like this. I’m not picking on you in particular because I see them all the time, especially as drive-by comments. What I like a lot about

I don’t like comments like this. I’m not picking on you in particular because I see them all the time, especially as drive-by comments. What I like a lot about HN is that typically these drive-by comments are not highly rewarded. There is a kind of cocktail-party level expertise that is behind comments that scientific results are obvious. First of all, even if they were, it’s likely there’s a novel angle the researchers are targeting. We should ask ourselves why a researcher would spend time on such “obvious” results. Conveniently, the article author asked the researchers why they would study this. It’s not just a question of whether their brains are dissimilar, but how. Second, whether male and female brains are structurally similar is controversial. As the article states, brain structures tend to look mostly the same in men and women.