"Why men should be better at mentally rotating objects is a weird thing," Cashdan says. "Some people think it is culturally constructed, but that doesn't explain why the pattern is shared so broadly across human societies and even in some other species ..."

aswokei · 2014-11-14T17:42:42+00:00

If you mention any kind of innate differences between men and women prepare for an ensuing shitstorm.

If you say that men's brains are 10% larger than women's, nobody will argue the point, but they will shut you out and shit all over you.

There was a fascinating thing that happened in 2005 when the President of Harvard, Dr. Lawrence Summers, suggested that the sex differences in representation in the sciences might have something to do with biological differences.

Quote: He went on to argue that boys outperform girls on high school science and maths scores because of genetic difference. "Research in behavioural genetics is showing that things people previously attributed to socialisation weren't due to socialisation after all," he told the Boston Globe yesterday. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/jan/18/educationsgendergap.genderissues

There was a shitstorm, and he lost his job, because he said that the research indicates that socialization doesn't explain women's lower representation in science.

"It was really shocking to hear the president of Harvard make statements like that," said Denice Denton, who is about to become president of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Really? It's so shocking and awful that someone would make an observation of what research shows. It's so, so terrible. Bitch.

sir_wankalot_here · 2014-11-14T17:14:23+00:00

Why do women have better hand eye cordination and can manipulate small objects much better then men ? There is a difference between a person of any gender having the right to take any profession as opposed to attempting to artificially equalize it.

MoltenPhoenix · 2014-11-14T17:17:03+00:00

When in school, I was told that men had better navigational skills than women because men were hunters. They forgot to include women as men's preys, it seems.

However, I found articles saying that it's because of higher testosterone levels.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/men-are-better-navigators-than-women-but-not-because-of-evolution-22477567/?no-ist

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2012/12/28/of-men-navigation-and-zits/

They note that when male rats are castrated, they do worse at navigating a maze; when they are given shots of testosterone, they regain their skill.

Higher testosterone levels could be what leads to having more children, and better navigation skills just a side effect.

RandomlyPMsPeople · 2014-11-14T18:16:02+00:00

Not sure if I'd really consider this Redpill material, but it's interesting.

I had actually heard something similar many years ago. Supposedly, men are much better at visualizing a "bird's eye view" of their surroundings while women really struggle with it.

I've tested this out a little with different groups of friends and it seems to be true.

You guys should try it out for yourselves next time you get a chance. Point out which direction is north and then pick a street in your town/city. Ask your girlfriend/female friends which direction that street runs and see how long it takes them to answer. Most of the women I've tried it on take ages to think of the answer.

Do the same thing with men and most of them could give you an answer almost instantly.

Watermelon_Salesman · 2014-11-14T18:33:23+00:00

In "The Blank Slate", a book about innatism by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, he tells the story of a person who was about to go through a sex change operation, and who at some point was taking testosterone injections. I can't remember precisely if this was a woman trying to become a man, but the point is that they measured her capacity for mental 3d rotation before and after the testosterone shots, and there was a significant increase in cognition.

Of course there are biological differences in cognition. At the very least, you have different hormones at different levels messing with your mind. Any man who has gone through weeks without ejaculation knows what it does to your cognition. Women should be be able to face this up front as well, since they go through a massive cognition rollercoaster as their menstrual cycles go through different phases.

And this is just hormones, we're not even talking about different brain architecture. The very fact that feminists could come up with the idea of gender as mere social construct and that most people would swallow this bullshit is something that mankind will regret for ages.

BluebirdJingle · 2014-11-14T18:33:04+00:00

Did you just take a study on evolutionary biology, conducted by a woman who clearly supports the scientific hypothesis postulated in the paper, and manufacture feminist outrage at the idea of gender differences?

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