Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern...
by renaudg on Saturday August 05, 2017 @07:40PM
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We don't need to wait for genetic data mining, this has been widely studied already.
Differences are visible within the first two days of birth : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222673203_Sex_Diffe...
and are present in monkeys too : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/
I'll let you draw the conclusion.
Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern...
by mcguire on Saturday August 05, 2017 @07:59PM
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Table 2: Mean percent looking times (and standard deviation) for each stimulus.
Face Mobile
Males (n = 44) 45.6 (23.5) 51.9 (23.3)
Females (n = 58) 49.4 (20.8) 40.6 (25.0)
That's quite a difference to be hanging the nature of society on.
Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern...
by Quarrelsome on Saturday August 05, 2017 @07:42PM
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Yes but to speculate that a baby's desire to look at a face more means they're less able to negotiate their pay is a bit of a leap (as opposed to that being social or cultural).
Sure there are literal differences between gender but one still has to ask that if those differences are big enough to make a difference following the YEARS of nurture or not.
I'll wait till the genetic data mining transitions this from speculation to fact thank you very much.
I'll stick with the assumption that its the latter two just because its more convenient and diplomatic. Maybe the genetic data we mine in future generations will give us the real answers but I don't see any advantage in pressing the biological argument until then (as I'm not working directly in that field).