Do You Have a Male or Female Brain?

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www.magiquiz.com/quiz/is-your-brain-more-male-or-female/

I know it's just a stupid online quiz but this is the environment young people are growing up in, and I thought you'd all find it ridiculous.

I got 'female' which means I'm better at finding my keys and maintaining the peace apparently.

If you can't be bothered to look at the quiz (which is sensible because it is daft and looong), it consists of questions like:

What was your favorite thing to do as a child?
- Play Doh all day
- Play with my Easy Bake Oven.
- Make Creepy Crawlers

You're walking through your house. How likely are you to notice dirty plates on the table?
- I always notice them.
- If I’m not distracted I’ll notice them.
- If I’m paying close attention I might notice them.
- I probably won’t notice until someone mentions them.

The second question - following the subtext along the logic train - implies we are turning our sons into girls by training them in how not to live in squalor.

As for the first question: play doh was banned in our house because it got squashed into the carpet, and I don't know what creepy crawlers are, but Dbro and I preferred using the actual gas oven to bake together. Not sure whether that made me a boy or him a girl. Perhaps we were both hermaphrodites?

Personally I have the brain of a goldfish.

What was the thread about again?

On a more pertinent note, I can recommend Lise Elliott's Pink Brain, Blue Brain. She is a neurologist whose specialisation is brain plasticity in infancy/early childhood. She notes that (a) insofar as you can measure any cognitive differences at all by adulthood, the d values - difference in means divided by product of the standard deviations - is tiny; and (b) since we can find ample evidence that people treat their children differently according to sex from birth onwards, and since we know the developing brain is incredibly plastic, there is absolutely no way even in principle you could determine whether such tiny differences as we can measure are down to nature or nurture.

Ah. So I have a male brain. I've done these quizzes before and they always say that, so I'm hardly surprised

Some of the questions on this one were either completely irrelevant (90's toys for anybody who wasn't a kid in the 90's?) or the options to choose from didn't include what I wanted to choose, so it was a bit shit.

Such a pile of crap. Apparently I have a male brain.

“With a male-dominant brain, you have strong spatial awareness, can better judge size based on sound and can thrive on little sleep. You have more confidence, too — or at least are better at asserting yourself. Men feel emotions stronger than women but aren’t usually as able to control those feelings.”

I only made it this far:

If you had to describe this image to a friend who couldn't see it, what would you say?

a) This is a picture of Chadwick Boseman, a very handsome man with black hair and brown eyes. He looks like he’s at a premier and is wearing all white.

b) It’s a picture of Chadwick Boseman.

Oh my dear lord.

@banivani I wouldn't have even know who that guy was

They seem to have missed off option C) - looks like some sort of z list celeb, but I haven't got a fucking clue who. Which is probably a good thing.

I can't be bothered to do this quiz, but I'm ace at maths and art, and did both at A-level.

Haven't a single clue who/what Chadwick Boseman, Crepy Crawlers or and EasyBake oven are, though.

Clearly I have a FML brain.

“Men feel emotions stronger than women but aren’t usually as able to control those feelings.”

Oh hurray, and we are also excusing men for their actions because they “feel emotions more strongly” buy aren’t “able to control” themselves. Yay patriarchy!