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10	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research	Science	FullPrefrontalNudity	/r/PurplePillDebate	13/02/15 05:20 PM

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2	If gender is nothing but a social construct, how do you explain transsexuals? To OP: I'm going to go ahead and agree with the other BP responders. Someone's expression of their gender is almost certainly tied to their biology. But some of the stuff they get taught after birth (like "X is manly and Y is womanly") is probably a lot less influenced by biology, much of it probably not at all. Another key point is that I (and probably most BPers) think that at least some aspects of behavior are influenced by biology. The tendency towards aggressiveness, for example, I think is…	/r/PurplePillDebate	16/02/15 05:40 PM
0	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research I really don't know what I'm looking at or what it's intended to prove. Like I said, nothing you have said so far has given me (or, I suspect, anyone else) reason to doubt the assertions I actually made, i.e. that stereotype exists and at least partially explains shortfalls in female performance on some kinds of tests of logical / mathematical ability.	/r/PurplePillDebate	16/02/15 04:59 PM
0	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research You've posted a lot of 'criticisms' of stereotype threat research, but no actual scientific evidence that it doesn't exist. For all your smoke and mirrors, you haven't actually directly addressed the evidence I presented for the existence of a stereotype threat effect, aside from yelling a couple buzzwords like "publication bias," which you couldn't even remember the actual name of (you called it "replication bias." None of this is remotely convincing. It's pretty clear at this point that you're…	/r/PurplePillDebate	16/02/15 03:11 PM
0	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research Selected by what criteria? I have a hard time understanding what you're asserting. It's difficult to be sure what you're referring to, since by your admission you didn't read any of the papers. If you're asking whether the girls in the study were chosen specifically for being equally competent in mathematics, no, that's not the case.	/r/PurplePillDebate	16/02/15 02:46 PM
0	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research The study isn't being used to test the existence of a gender gap, it's being used to illustrate that girls do worse on tests of mathematical ability when they are told that there is a gender difference than if they are told that there is not (i.e. that stereotype threat worsens performance). That's all. Also, if you'd read my comments our the papers, you'd know that you're actually incorrect when you say that stereotype threat studies only worsen performance below existing gaps. That is actually…	/r/PurplePillDebate	16/02/15 02:22 PM
0	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research Ok, I'll bite. It's been a few years since grad stats I & II, so I've had to pick up some of my old reference papers and refresh. You're referring to the fact that the Stoet & Geary paper excluded a large number of studies for using ANCOVA with pre-experiment test performance as the covariate. Believe it or not, I had to do a paper on just this phenomenon once. ANCOVA is a statistical method which attempts to increase the power of an analysis of variance by reducing the proportion of unexplained…	/r/PurplePillDebate	16/02/15 01:40 PM
3	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research The Ganley paper referenced in your first link uses FAR fewer studies than the Nguyen & Ryan paper, and the 2 (that's not many) studies it does have that A: are done on students of an age at which gender differences appear to begin with and B: are not a grad student's dissertation both found the existence of a stereotype threat effect in at least some circumstances (e.g. in coed settings, and on high-difficulty test items). The 2012 Stoet & Geary study you cite used 20 studies. The Nguyne & Ryan…	/r/PurplePillDebate	13/02/15 08:02 PM
1	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research Done.	/r/PurplePillDebate	13/02/15 07:36 PM
1	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research That funnel graph you posted is actually evidence of the LACK of publication bias, see page 1325, lower left corner. And for bonus points, the data on that graph show a significant POSITIVE correlation between sample size and effect size (meaning larger, more reliable studies tended to find larger effects, on average).	/r/PurplePillDebate	13/02/15 07:16 PM
2	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research Find me some empirical research saying that women are worse decision makers than men.	/r/PurplePillDebate	13/02/15 07:03 PM
4	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research I don't disagree with you that preconceptions of all kinds can hinder empirical research. One need only look at the inability of certain sects to accept evolution, the true age of the earth, research into the therapeutic uses of 'bad' drugs, etc. I don't think that means that you can ignore research if you suspect that the researchers might have a bias. Especially when that research is replicated dozens of times over. The findings of decades of research of stereotype threat are pretty unequivoca…	/r/PurplePillDebate	13/02/15 06:55 PM
2	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research Re publication bias: The effect sizes found in stereotype threat studies are gigantic. You don't get effect sizes like that by performing the same study 20 times to clear an alpha of 0.05 at least once. Furthermore, the hallmark of findings that are due to publication bias is that they fall apart on replication. Stereotype threat has been replicated. A LOT. See Nguyen & Ryan (2008) in the Journal of Applied Psychology for a meta-analysis. I can post a buttload of links, if you like.	/r/PurplePillDebate	13/02/15 06:44 PM
2	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research I'm sure that my opinion colors my perception of many things. That's precisely why I choose to rely on empirical evidence, which is as close as I can come to un-tainted knowledge. You'll note that I have no problem admitting that men do have certain cognitive advantages over women (and women over men) which may well be a result of underlying neural differences. Do you think that your desires and beliefs color YOUR perception of the research? Do you find that you have trouble admitting certain we…	/r/PurplePillDebate	13/02/15 06:32 PM
3	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research That is, let's just say the thesis is that there are significant cognitive differences between men and women, these differences may form the basis of the popular gender stereotypes that exist cross-culturally, and these differences likely spring from the underlying neural/hormonal differences. Objectionable? I wouldn't consider this objectionable as a hypothesis. As an assumed fact (referring here to the second part), I consider it objectionable, because I don't think the evidence is there, at a…	/r/PurplePillDebate	13/02/15 06:18 PM
2	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research What do you mean by replication bias? Are you referring to publication bias? And I'm not sure that what you just said addresses my assertion.	/r/PurplePillDebate	13/02/15 06:08 PM
5	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research I'm not going to argue the incontrovertible fact that there are physical brain differences between men and women at neural, hormonal, functional, and gross anatomical levels. Neither will I argue that there are cognitive differences between men and women. What I will vigorously contest is that any existing evidence supports the claim that "women are emotional problem solvers and men are logical problem solvers," which is just another way of saying "women don't actually care about reality but jus…	/r/PurplePillDebate	13/02/15 06:04 PM
2	Cognitive sex differences: Empirical research This phenomenon (sterotype threat) is very well documented top kek. Even if true it'd only mean women who are as tall as men tend to slouch when reminded of the stereotype that men are tall. I do not understand your response here. What specific criticisms of the empirical evidence for the existence of stereotype threat do you take issue with? As far as I can tell, you have zero evidence that without stereotype threat being essentially a constant on a cultural level, women would perform significa…	/r/PurplePillDebate	13/02/15 05:53 PM
9	Are you BP/TRP because of psychological baggage/shitty self-image, or because you actually believe there's legit issues to be had I am a feminist because I believe that we are fighting a war for the soul of our society. There are contradictory viewpoints within the culture of the USA and many other Western nations on questions such as whether women and men have inherently different cognitive abilities, whether women and men have inherently different moral proclivities, whether men and women have a right to expect not just equal rights under the law but truly equal opportunities, whether the rights and opportunities of wome…	/r/PurplePillDebate	13/02/15 05:37 PM