New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality
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HN comment orderAll: please focus on the specific information in the article and steer clear of the ideological black holes in the neighborhood. We've had enough generic flamewars. The enduring goal is curious conversation. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://unherd.com/2019/08/the-truth-about-the-female-brain/ Saloni Dattani, another brain researcher, points out there are strong measures of gender-based brain development and that Rippon (mentioned in OP article) appears ideologically biased to assert that the brain is "unisex." Dattani's podcast with Julia Galef on this is worth listening to: http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-239-saloni-datt.... It is pretty meta and doesn't fall strongly on one side, but it does dissect the lack of objectivity in…
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-14 | Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously | adnzzzzZ | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-12-14 | New approaches shedding light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality | mhb | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-12-14 | New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex differences in personalityFirst breakout · Best thread | oli5679 | 262 | 328 |
| 2021-05-05 | Taking sex differences in personality seriously (2019)Latest 20+ point return | Tomte | 193 | 228 |
| 2022-12-28 | Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously (2019) | Tomte | 1 | 0 |