Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal brain development
Can someone (likely younger than me) explain to me why the concept of gender-associated cognitive differences has become so controversial, and why the “blank slate hypothesis” is the only one considered acceptable? This was an entirely different story when I was in college.<p>90% of all nurses are women, does that mean that 100% of the difference (from the 50&#x2F;50 ideal-world gendersplit assumption) are men purely socialized <i>not</i> to do that?<p>I have no interest in sports, yet 90+% of men seem to, but I kinda get it, it makes sense to me that most men would be into that.<p>And then we get to programming, and raw interest in mechanisms... and <i>possible</i> correlations to gender with that, and all hell breaks loose.<p>Have all the “monkeys prefer gender-stereotypical human toys” studies been discredited? You can’t IMHO use the socialization argument there: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2583786&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2583786&#x2F;</a><p>Happy to hear anyone out on this though.