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On 2015-09-30 20:37, William Flynn Wallace wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:04 AM,
Giulio Prisco <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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seen on this planet, beauty and brains are<br>
totally unrelated. Beautiful idiot, smart genius, smart
idiot,<br>
beautiful genius, there is plenty of all that. By the way,
I have the<br>
impression that all propositions (besides the trivial
ones) that<br>
contain "men" or "women" are very wrong.<br>
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There are quite a few significant differences
between men and women that are far from trivial.
Aside from the usual - women are better with words
and men with directions - women are better than men
at small muscle tasks, such as sewing, women stand
great pain better than men, women recover from
romantic disappointments more quickly than men,
women's sexual capabilities are very different from
men's - and a lot more. Verified by studies, not by
old wives' tales or folklore.</div>
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Kind of... I really reccomend Hyde's "The gender similarity
hypothesis" <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.374.1723&rep=rep1&type=pdf">http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.374.1723&rep=rep1&type=pdf</a><br>
and her work on actually collecting the effect sizes of these
differences. They exist, but they are rather small. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.devpsy.org/teaching/gender/sex_differences.html">http://www.devpsy.org/teaching/gender/sex_differences.html</a><br>
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Significant differences are not necessarily important differences.
Conversely, even small effect sizes sometimes have disproportionate
effects out in the tails (look at the ratio of two Gaussian
distributions with slightly different means). But most of the time
small effect sizes have small effects. <br>
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Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University</pre>
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