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Re:Men Are Better at Maps Until Women Take This Course by panic on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @06:49AM (#11018888)
There are massive differences between male/female brains. Chess world, STEM, imageboard demographics, this forum--90% men, etc show this.

As far as I know, we are very far away from understanding how brain biology affects imageboard demographics. Are you a neurobiology expert? Have you considered any alternative hypotheses? Have you listened to women talk or write about why they avoid the kinds of places you mention?

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Re:Men Are Better at Maps Until Women Take This Course by mafribe on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @07:29AM (#11019037) 

   we are very far away from understanding 
   how brain biology affects
That is very true and can't be repeated often enough.

But it cuts both ways. There is nothing in our current state of understanding of neuroscience that categorically rules out biologically based differences in higher cognitive abilities between men and women.

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