I gave you a Pinker book to read and a well footnoted Wikipedia article on the science. I've spent enough work trying to educate someone who gives all the signs of just not wanting to change their mind.
> Okay, what do personality tests have to do with cultural sex or race discrimination?
Nothing, and I never claimed it had.
> Personality tests are pseudoscientific
The big five is the established scientific fact of 2019. Denying science because it doesn't fit with your ideology doesn't put you in great company.
I’m sorry I made you angry, there’s some miscommunication going on here. I’m not convinced we’re talking about the same thing because you haven’t brought anything to this conversation that demonstrates there’s evidence of intrinsic sex differences when it comes to career choices, you’ve only pointed to known cultural differences.
I agree with you that there are cultural differences.
> If those distribution differences were constant over a long time, say a thousand years, and constant globally, then your argument might have a leg to stand on.
So your standard of proof here 1000 years of studies, until you can agree that there is a chance this could be true.
Obviously, nothing anyone can say convince someone with such firm beliefs.
I agree there is miscommunication. I've been as clear as I can be, and I don't think any amount of me restating things can reach you.
I’m ignoring your ad hominem, but FWIW it weakens your argument because it demonstrates you didn’t understand mine. It has also become clear you didn’t fully understand my question. So, yes, you could keep restating that cultural differences exist or bringing up other irrelevant things like personality tests, and yes, that will continue to fail to show that intrinsic sex differences exist.
Your second non-answer to my question is to point at the updated version of the Myers-Briggs test, right after saying ‘but, science’? Okay, what do personality tests have to do with cultural sex or race discrimination?
This only repeats your previous argument, it shows that cultural differences currently exist. Again, we already know that. It does not show that intrinsic sex differences exist. I recommend reading all of that article carefully before assuming it’s helping your argument in any way. The conclusion of the section you shared on gender differences says:
“It is important to recognize that individual differences in traits are relevant in a specific cultural context, and that the traits do not have their effects outside of that context.”
And Big Five is “established” as a personality test. Personality tests are pseudoscientific, even if Big 5 is ‘more scientific’ than Myers-Briggs.
“Like the Big 5 model, any personality or behavior assessment can’t know things you haven’t explicitly answered in the questionnaire, Stein says. Sometimes commercial personality tests ask odd questions—like, Do you identify with snakes? or How do you react to a certain color?—and try to draw inferences from your answers. Those kinds of conclusions venture into the pseudoscientific, Stein says.“
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-accurate-are-...
https://qz.com/1201773/we-took-the-worlds-most-scientific-pe...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#...