https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/03/this-is-your-brain-this-is-you/ Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:36:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/03/this-is-your-brain-this-is-you/#comment-1266 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:36:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/03/this-is-your-brain-this-is-you/#comment-1266 There are numerous well documented and credible sex differences, there is no doubt about that at all. But that there are sex differences that arise mainly from hormonal conditioning (at various developmental stages) does not mean that every observed difference falls into this category. It is more complex than this!

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/03/this-is-your-brain-this-is-you/#comment-1265 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:33:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/03/this-is-your-brain-this-is-you/#comment-1265 There’s a scientific argument above? What, the scientific argument from incredulity? (I can’t figure out how behavior could be genetically encoded, so it can’t be).Your claim that it is widely believed that sex abilities in various abilities are culturally conditioned is not widely accepted; on the contrary, it’s pretty much discredited. Pinker is one who doesn’t accept it, and Pinker is no conservative; Sheri Berenbaum’s studies on girls with CAH, which show that in utero hormone exposure causes girls to adopt stereotypicially male interests and behavior, is a major body of scientific work that indicates that gender differences are at least partly innate.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/03/this-is-your-brain-this-is-you/#comment-1264 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:05:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/03/this-is-your-brain-this-is-you/#comment-1264 Gerard (a.k.a. “the right wing professor): This is not a political argument, but rather, a scientific argument. I don’t make political arguments about how neurons work.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/03/this-is-your-brain-this-is-you/#comment-1263 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:03:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/03/this-is-your-brain-this-is-you/#comment-1263 It is a little bit old and out of date now, but still as brilliant as ever:The Symbolic Species, by Terrence

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/03/this-is-your-brain-this-is-you/#comment-1262 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:59:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/03/this-is-your-brain-this-is-you/#comment-1262 Sex differences in certain abilities, which have persisted for decades in various psychological tests, are now widely believed to be the result of conditioning that is in turn shaped by cultural factors.Widely, by whom? You and the cultural left? Certainly not by Kimura, or by a dozen other people working in the field.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/03/this-is-your-brain-this-is-you/#comment-1261 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:30:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/03/this-is-your-brain-this-is-you/#comment-1261 I’m about 2/3 through The Blank Slate. The lesson I take from your post is: you think Pinker’s full of shit about this, right? ;-)Can you please suggest where I can read a counter-balancing view, and hopefully converge on some half-way accurate understanding of the situation?

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