Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal brain development

Re:Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal b... by amanaplanacanal on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @04:28PM (#19372652)

Go back a hundred years and the culture is full of this kind of stuff. Racial and sexual stereotypes were rampant, and people could commonly point to "science" to back up their biases. Surely you are aware of this?

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Re:Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal b... by pmarreck on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @06:56PM (#19373935)

So because "scarequote science" (as you are using it) was 1 flavor 100 years ago (an extremely flawed one), that means MODERN-DAY science is also suspect?

If I cherry-pick 1 study out of 10 which corroborates my worldiew and use it to cudgel my oppressive point home, that is not a "science problem," the problem there is that someone must step up and point out that 9 other studies did not have results in agreement with that one person's worldview!

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Re:Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal b... by amanaplanacanal on Sunday March 17, 2019 @09:24PM (#19417997)

> I don’t believe anyone has been using science (biological cognitive differences?) to exclude individuals from jobs

That was what I was responding to. Yes, people have used science as an excuse to do those very things.

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