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Saturday, 8 November 2014
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bones said @ 6:15am GMT on 12th November
We keep finding the sex differences, even many physical ones, emerge because of how we treat boys and girls. For instance, there is absolutely no inherent difference in spacial reasoning between boys and girls according to newer research. What is happening is that little boys are given toys that improve spacial reasoning and girls aren't, so the boys' brains then develop (plasticity ftw) differently from girls' in that regard.
Your nature is inherent, but terribly elastic and highly determined by circumstance. You were not born Option A, you were born with a potential for Option A, A Prime, B, Option C, etc, then society and behavior affect physically how your brain grows, environmental stressors and triggers switch your alleles on and off. You don't express all your genes all the time, and the genes you do express can change when an allele turns on or off.
You are putting too much stock in old research whose goal was to justify injustice, to prove that one race or one sex was inferior.
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bones said @ 6:14am GMT on 12th November
We keep finding the sex differences, even many physical ones, emerge because of how we treat boys and girls. For instance, there is absolutely no inherent difference in spacial reasoning between boys and girls according to newer research. What is happening is that little boys are given toys that improve spacial reasoning and girls aren't, so the boys' brains then develop (plasticity ftw) differently from girls' in that regard.
Your nature is inherent, but terribly elastic and highly determined by circumstance. You were not born Option A, you were born with a potential for Option A, A Prime, B, Option C, etc, then society and behavior affect physically how your brain grows, environmental stressors and triggers switch your alleles on and off. You don't express all your genes all the time, and the genes you do express can change when an allele turns on or off.
You are putting too much stock in old research whose goal was to justify injustice, to prove that one race or one sex was inferior.
