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Originally Posted by Van Rijn
Differences in brain structure are irrelevant unless it is shown to be clearly and directly relevant to the subjects in question (for instance, mathematical ability). If you assume there must be a biologically based difference, you're making an assumption that is just as bad as the so-called "PC" (or "nurture") assumption that there can be no biologically based difference.
If somebody argued that preference for the color pink is based on neurological differences between genders, would you consider that reasonable on the face of it? Or would you require careful and specific experiment, taking culture into consideration, before you accepted it?
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A basic or general structural difference should not be able to account for personal tastes or details- But it should be able to account for general tastes etc.
Breaking things down to the tiny, will still reveal chemical, electrical and physical causes for what makes that particular individual into that particular individual.
We currently are not yet that sophisticated with our scanning.
However, I do think that if we were, we would be able to tell anything about a person with a very very sophisticated scan- up to and including their favorite ice cream.
Even that would be only fleeting.
I know my favorite ice cream flavor changes periodically
And if we are then going to generalize it even more into one gender against the other- considering the minute and amazing properties of the brain...
I can only laugh.
If there are a bunch of women out there that have less mathematical aptitude than some men- I can assure you that there are a bunch of women out there that have more aptitude than some men too.