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Re:The cognitive differences between men and women by meowface on Sunday August 06, 2017 @02:14PM (#14942544)
If "male visuospatial advantage" isn't being replicated when stereotype threat is taken into account, and stereotype threat isn't being replicated when other experimental variables are taken into account, I don't think that necessarily proves or disproves male visuospatial advantage or that it can or can't be explained by stereotype threat.

I think we need some meta-analyses here.

Re:The cognitive differences between men and women by leereeves on Sunday August 06, 2017 @10:20PM (#14944869)
A meta-analysis wouldn't solve the problem unless it somehow included previously unpublished data. Publication bias has left whole fields of science untrustable.

If an individual scientist cherry-picked interesting data the way publications cherry-pick results to publish, it would be called fraud.

Re:The cognitive differences between men and women by meowface on Sunday August 13, 2017 @12:00AM (#15001406)
Very true. I should've said "more studies and more meta-analyses need to be conducted".