<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Jul 23, 2019, at 7:08 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki <<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 2:25 PM Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div><br></div><div>I think the “males are better at it” is mostly because of culture. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### This is completely untrue. Men's superior visuospatial capabilities are just as biologically determined as superior upper body strength. Absolutely nothing cultural about it. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>See, for example,<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2867482/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2867482/</a></div><div><br></div><div>And see also:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/brains-men-and-women-aren-t-really-different-study-finds">https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/brains-men-and-women-aren-t-really-different-study-finds</a></div><div><br></div><div>And, again, I point to the work of Anne Fausto-Sterling and Cordelia Fine and the research they cite and interpret. For instance, Fausto-Sterling’s _Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World_ and Fine’s _Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference_.<br><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>