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Re:Sex Differences in Friendship Preferences by strickman on Sunday January 23, 2022 @04:44PM (#30050768)
I think it's more biological than cultural. Men evolved with preference for solving the production problem (are we creating enough?), and women evolved with preference for solving the distribution problem (does everyone have enough?). But as with everything, the behaviors are described by a normal distribution, and these two curves with offset means overlap.
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Re:Sex Differences in Friendship Preferences by xapata on Sunday January 23, 2022 @04:47PM (#30050796)
What's the evidence for this evolution preference? I am skeptical, because historically, women were substantially involved in agriculture and textile production.
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Re:Sex Differences in Friendship Preferences by strickman on Sunday January 23, 2022 @04:54PM (#30050882)
I think one piece of evidence would be the studies in psychology on the "big five" personality characteristics that show women scoring higher than men on agreeableness. But this is more of my guess on how things work.

And it's probably not a massive offset in the bell curves; your examples would not be in conflict.

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Re:Sex Differences in Friendship Preferences by xapata on Sunday January 23, 2022 @04:56PM (#30050905)
That's an observation of modern characteristics, not evolutionary pressures.
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Re:Sex Differences in Friendship Preferences by strickman on Sunday January 23, 2022 @05:05PM (#30050978)
It wasn't my intention to limit my comments on this to statements for which I have links to supporting academic studies. I wanted to propose my guesses, because it's fun to see who else has arrived at the same spot. I was careful to start with "I think it's" rather than "it is true that" or "consensus exists that".
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Re:Sex Differences in Friendship Preferences by xapata on Monday January 24, 2022 @02:14AM (#30054486)
Your "I think" described the conclusion. I didn't read it as describing your explanation for that conclusion, which you seemed much more confident about.
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Re:Sex Differences in Friendship Preferences by rajin444 on Sunday January 23, 2022 @05:05PM (#30050981)
How can you say that for certain? We don’t understand genetics well enough yet (much less anything downstream of that).
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Re:Sex Differences in Friendship Preferences by xapata on Monday January 24, 2022 @02:08AM (#30054458)
The comment discussed a survey of humans alive today.
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