Reply #219: The Scientific Method, huh?

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Well, rather than talking about the scientific method, which has nothing to do with the issue I picked at here, let's talk about differences between male and female brains. Please do review the studies. They do not state that female brains are this way and male brains are that way. No, they look for statistically measurable associations between gender (a loose term anyway, as somewhere on the order of 1 in 100 births have some reasonable ambiguity) and some physiological, neurological, or psychological characteristic/response/behavior or other measurable (repeatably, hopefully) datum. In the end, there can easily be more in common between the brains (in terms of the measurable data) of a given man and a given woman, than between a given pair of individuals of "opposite" gender.

The silliness, to me, is that researchers keep LOOKING, long and hard, for these "differences", and that we (humans in this case), as good pattern matchers, jump to the all to easy (and yes, silly) associations in "dichotomy": male/female, liberal/conservative, etc.

BTW, "we" are the posters and readers here at this forum, whom I see in large part to be liberal, thoughtful and critical. We can be more critical than this study and of any conclusions stated or implied.

Finally, I hope you are a Scientist after insulting me in reference to the scientific method.