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Chris Fox's avatar

Your last paragraph: not quite.

First of all, the stereotypes of male and female psychology don't survive actual scientific testing, double-blind and peer-reviewed; women are just as aggressive, men are just as social and so on. Most of the stereotypes are indeed responses to societal expectation.

Except one.

Men in competitive situations will outperform themselves in noncompetitive ones. Women perform identically with or without competition.

And this is why "trans women" in women's sports is just wrong; even without the corporeal advantages of heavier male bones and muscles, that competitive male brain confers an unfair advantage.

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Grow Some Labia's avatar

There are differences in brain wiring and sometimes they support the stereotypes but it doesn't matter; we're not our biology, it's not our destiny. The brain differences are there. Steven Pinker gets into this rather a lot. Here's an article by a different researcher on the diffs:

https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different.html

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

Fascinating!

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

A thing I wish these studies had sigma and zeta values included so we could see if the data is significant, or noise more easily.

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Grow Some Labia's avatar

What do you mean, like evaluating to see how worthy they are of citation? Not sure what sigma & Zeta values are.

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

Standard deviation and distance from the mean are and indication of the strength and significance of data when assigning meaning. Just a mindset I developed in the job I retired from where I had to provide an executive summary to project managers ($$$) about the significance of my data.

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

That is an interesting thing that I was unaware of.

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