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   by 10101011 7y ago

   She makes the very specific claim that "85 percent of twenty- to thirty-year-old males think about sex every fifty-two seconds". Given that she places this statement among others that ARE cited, it should also be cited.
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   by 10101011 7y ago

   Ah, so instead of bogus citations, she provided no citations at all. Glad we cleared that up!
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   by 10101011 7y ago

   Update after talking to a friend: I (along with the rest of the commenters) failed to consider a major piece of information, which is that any study of people older than babies does not prove anything about those people's inherent char
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   by 10101011 7y ago

   Dr. Brizendine's books are hyperbolic pseudoscience. I stopped taking "The Female Brain" seriously when I read the stuff about how young men think about sex once a minute and young women think about it once every couple of da
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   by 10101011 7y ago

   Thank you for your response - glad to know I'm not alone. To address your last point, I meant "more of an outlier" in the mathematical sense: if for a given trait that's beneficial to, eg, startup success (like dominance
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   by 10101011 7y ago

   Any other female HN readers feel viscerally uncomfortable and discouraged after reading this? I get that people =/= averages, but I don't want to bet on myself being even MORE of an outlier than the men who achieve what I want to