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The Difference Between Men and Women

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dratsea · 15/09/2014 01:43

According to 84 yr old male academic!

Warning - Do not read with a mouth full of tea and toast!

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whathaveiforgottentoday · 15/09/2014 01:56

Seems a pretty accurate article to me. Of course it omits all the many similarities between the genders but hey ho, that wouldn't sell many books would it.

VashtaNerada · 15/09/2014 02:34

Ha ha what an idiot! So much of this has been discredited. It's a shame that people will read and trust it though Sad

whathaveiforgottentoday · 15/09/2014 18:24

Not sure much of it has been discredited but it certainly is guilty of alpha bias in that it over-exaggerates the differences.

VashtaNerada · 15/09/2014 18:27

(Discredited in the sense that meta-analysis shows significantly more similarities between genders than difference)

GlassNoodle · 15/09/2014 18:28

Oh jesus. I can't even...

whathaveiforgottentoday · 15/09/2014 18:48

oh, I agree with that Vashta. I just can't see the point in publishing the material - its not exactly new and whilst its not wrong, by only publishing the differences it does give a very distorted view of the genders. However, if he'd written a book saying how similar we are, would it sell and would the telegraph bother writing an article about it?

Very poor indeed. I showed my A level psychology class this article this morning to support my rant from last Friday on publishing bias.

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