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There's still something I'm not getting about "the other side"'s case. It's already established that differences in the structure of the brain between males and females begin appearing in utero in response to the same early burst of sex hormones that determines whether the genitalia will develop into the female form or the male form, and that those design differences persist throughout life. If there's no biological/genetic difference in what male and female brains do, then what are the sex hormones doing to the brain so early in development, and why are they doing it if the different structural details yield no difference in results?
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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). |
And that brings us back to the male role in ancient societies for the last few million years, but not the female one, being directly applied physics and geometry, and the link between that and math.
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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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What would be the point of testing something that was NOT reasonable on the face of it? If you're already sure that it makes no sense to think that red & blue frogs secretly conspired to cause the conflict between Russia and Georgia, then there's no need to test it.