Re:How to Make School Better for Boys
by simias on Friday September 13, 2013 @11:58AM
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Evolutionary psychology is always fraught with controversies.
I don't know if someone could read the paper referenced [1] and give some insights on the methodology used.
I ask because studying the innate differences between men and women is extremely hard, cultural bias is huge.
After reading many papers (on both sides of the "women and men are different" fence) I've come to the personal conclusion that you can't really treat evolutionary psychology as a hard science. It's just too controversial as it is, everybody seems to be pushing a personal agenda. Just read the studies if you can access them and make up your own opinion.
Maybe in a few decades when the dust has settled we might be able to reach a consensus. As it is, I really wouldn't treat those papers as "facts".
I don't know if someone could read the paper referenced [1] and give some insights on the methodology used.
I ask because studying the innate differences between men and women is extremely hard, cultural bias is huge.
After reading many papers (on both sides of the "women and men are different" fence) I've come to the personal conclusion that you can't really treat evolutionary psychology as a hard science. It's just too controversial as it is, everybody seems to be pushing a personal agenda. Just read the studies if you can access them and make up your own opinion.
Maybe in a few decades when the dust has settled we might be able to reach a consensus. As it is, I really wouldn't treat those papers as "facts".
[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19883140
I would like to cite more sources but the only ones that come to my mind right now are in french. Maybe this would be a good starting point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psyc...