Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal brain development

Re:Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal b... by stcredzero on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @02:26PM (#19371372)

Great question. Unrelatedly, mind if I correlate your medical history and a genetic profile of you with your purchase history at three major retail chains and the contents of your inbox?

Bad point. Violating the privacy of individuals is worlds different from studying gender differences on average.

(... everything has a political dimension, including data accumulation. Because ultimately, humans use the data, and what humans do is politics).

But from that, it can't follow that we should alter the results to avoid hurt feelings. That would render the "data" no better than mythical just-so stories. Politics should be subservient to empirical data and science. We've seen what doing it the other way results in historically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

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Re:Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal b... by Daniel3 on Thursday March 14, 2019 @02:54PM (#19392303)

Wow how interesting. Seems to drive out of a mindset of despair and blind hope. This seems like a pretty appropriate category for Modern Monetary Theory as well.

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Re:Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal b... by pmarreck on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:38PM (#19373318)

TIL of Lysenkoism. Wow. That's a powerful example right there.

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Re:Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal b... by stcredzero on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @06:34PM (#19373788)

One of the first times I mentioned it on HN, the reaction was basically, "Thank you for showing me this right-wing talking point, now I can counteract it." No curiosity about the history. No valuing of knowledge and truth.

This says a lot about our world today.

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Re:Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal b... by pmarreck on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @12:07AM (#19375644)

How is it a right-wing talking point? It's basically pro-science (and to be fair, the right has their anti-global-warmacists and the left has their antivax and antinuclear baseless beliefs)

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Re:Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal b... by stcredzero on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @12:41PM (#19380490)

How is it a right-wing talking point?

Because that's how wacko some of the Far Left have become. Because some of the Far Left would like for there to be something like Lysenkoism forwarding a version of science which explicitly fits their narratives, and for this to be taught to young people. (If you look into it, they basically have a "good start.")

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Re:Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal b... by fixermark on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @02:27PM (#19381831)

Can you clarify what model some on the Far Left are forwarding that fits their narrative and how it relates to Lysenkoism?

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