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Re:Math Looks the Same in the Brains of Boys and Girls, Stud... by cmiles74 on Friday November 08, 2019 @09:13AM (#21482284)
If you are coming from the point of view that males are better at math then females, then the next thing to wonder is "why"? This study attempted to find some factual backing for the most popular explanation: that there is a biological difference between the brains of male and female people that causes males to be better at math.

This study didn't find any such difference, in the study both gender's brains worked in the same way. They studied children in an attempt to factor out some other influences (i.e. societal).

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Re:Math Looks the Same in the Brains of Boys and Girls, Stud... by rfhjt on Friday November 08, 2019 @12:49PM (#21484781)
Not so quickly. They didn't find any obvious differences in some basic coarse metrics. That's like stating that the thermal image of AMD and Intel processors is about the same and thus their abilities are the same. The only thing this study proves us that the differences are more subtle than what they could measure.
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