Be skeptical of the neuroscience of gender

Honestly, it seems to work both ways: if it’s a controversial topic, you’ll usually get a pretty clear picture one way or the other. In this case, those advocating an innate difference between the sexes usually look for a “hardwired” scientific basis for popular stereotypes (bonus points for evolutionary psychology!), those opposing it often rely on small-scale social science studies, usually those made on western university students.

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