Horizon - is your brain male or female NOW (9pm bbc2)

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DH just pointed it out for me

So going to watch - hope I don't need to feel the RAGE too much

Anyone with me?

Yep. I think it will be rage inducing though.

I have been ranting already! Just said to DH "right I'm going to shut up and listen really I am"...

We'll see

Have high hopes but low expectations of this...

Yep saw that earlier. Avoiding it to keep the blood pressure down

Starting to twitch now...

People can't seriously believe the toy preferences of tiny children are innate? Interested to see what toys the monkeys like though...

Watching.

The chap was on the One show earlier spouting stuff that made me ragey... Prof Alice Roberts is always great though!

Have recorded it as can't face it tonight. I have fairly high hopes due to Alice Roberts involvement. I saw a quote from her last week where she said she didn't want her daughter to have a princess themed birthday party because she wanted her to avoid all the gender stereotype crap. So fingers crossed

Hmmm they keep saying 'on average men/women scored slightly more' - how much? Enough to actually statistically significant? No mention of causation either...

Since when have monkeys shown any aspirations to want to drive?

Maybe they are the same monkeys who want to write Shakespeare?

Kate I noticed that too!

Was just saying to DH re. monkey groups being highly socialised and females will have observed baby care

Also have they put just female / just male in with all toys and seen what happens then - do the dominant ones of the group get first pick etc

Not impressed so far. No discussion about stereotype threat for the spatial awareness test. As far as the monkey test goes, could someone please tell me why monkeys of any gender would be interested in vehicles? They need Cordelia Fine. Or indeed come to my house and see my DD playing witht the train set. Oh, here we go, autism as the extreme male brain.

Why do boy monkeys prefer cars? We don't really know...maybe movement or something.

Science!

Does that mean that if boy monkeys don't like cars, they are gay monkeys? Or female monkeys who need GRS?

eurgh, I've just been ranting about this in the pub.

Really need Alice back on to balance this out.

Oh, and yes, ask randoms on the street, cos that's scientific

YY, the claim that the male monkeys just enjoy watching the wheels move - well, perhaps the females do to, but if they dare try to take one of the trucks away from a male, they'd be put back in their proper monkey place pretty smartly.

Not watching as I don't have a TV, but from reading this thread it sounds utterly ridiculous

Watching too. I'd have been interested to see what happened if they compared cars and prams rather than cars and dolls.

Oh this makes me so mad...oh wait 'could be the result of social pressure..' Nurture at last gets a look in

(I've been in the pub too).

Different roles in life... Argh!

Ooh now this baby 'cross-dressing' experiment is interesting.

ah, now it gets more interesting - giving a baby called 'Abbi', dressed in pink, to a researcher and seeing what toys the researchers push at them.

Abbi is of course really a boy.

It must be because they dressed her in blue!!!!

Finally!