Can someone (likely younger than me) explain to me why the concept of gender-associated cognitive differences has become so controversial, and why the “blank slate hypothesis” is the only one considered acceptable? This was an entirely different story when I was in college.
90% of all nurses are women, does that mean that 100% of the difference (from the 50/50 ideal-world gendersplit assumption) are men purely socialized not to do that?
I have no interest in sports, yet 90+% of men seem to, but I kinda get it, it makes sense to me that most men would be into that.
And then we get to programming, and raw interest in mechanisms... and possible correlations to gender with that, and all hell breaks loose.
Have all the “monkeys prefer gender-stereotypical human toys” studies been discredited? You can’t IMHO use the socialization argument there: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/
Happy to hear anyone out on this though.
90% of all nurses are women, does that mean that 100% of the difference (from the 50/50 ideal-world gendersplit assumption) are men purely socialized not to do that?
I have no interest in sports, yet 90+% of men seem to, but I kinda get it, it makes sense to me that most men would be into that.
And then we get to programming, and raw interest in mechanisms... and possible correlations to gender with that, and all hell breaks loose.
Have all the “monkeys prefer gender-stereotypical human toys” studies been discredited? You can’t IMHO use the socialization argument there: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/
Happy to hear anyone out on this though.