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I'd be curious how we know they aren't exposed - 1 year is a long time to see TV shows, TV commercials, toys with pictures of target audience, picture books, et

• gitremote 1y ago
  Cars were invented in the early 1900s and the vast majority of human existence was in a world without cars. There cannot be an innate preference for cars, which were a very recent invention.
  • musicale 1y ago
    Toy cars (tiny wheeled carts) date back at least 5000 years, but tools/technology date to the dawn of humanity.
    • gitremote 1y ago
      The spinning wheel (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_wheel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_wheel), which creates yarn from threads, existed longer than cars. I doubt you would argue that boys would have a preference for playing with toy versions these wheeled tools, given that women in various Western and Eastern cultures were the main users of these tools.
  • socalgal2 1y ago
    so you're agreeing with me that any preference seen is probably from exposure and not innate like the studies claim?