The only sentence that matters is the obvious: “Men conformed to a higher degree

The only sentence that matters is the obvious: “Men conformed to a higher degree on difficult and logical questions.”

Well, of course: for the same reason the sciences converge over time: truth causes convergence.

But the study doesn’t state the corollary: “Women conform to a higher degree on preferential, emotional, and social questions.”

I wonder if people read and understand the study. Probably not.

We’ve see this same effect in the need to dumb down IQ and SAT tests in order to reduce the difference between male and female test results.

We see the absence of sex differentiating questions in particular in the relative verbal pictorial experiential vs the spatio-temporal, model-transformational, objective and the consequence of predicting outcomes at scale.

We’ve seen this same effect in the development of personality testing, where the big 5 Traits were an attempt to create a sex independent measure – which remained irrelevant until we added sex dependency back in to personality measures with Facets.

And we see the same effect in classrooms as women seek to suppress competition and preserve feelings despite that it causes failure of adaptation and maturation.

I mean, I do this sort of thing for a living. And my work on sex differences in lying in particular has been fruitful. Especially the female effort to shame vs the male effort to demonstrate status by objective correction.

(I cover most of the overview dimensions here: https://t.co/CWUmeJueIn. But you can find much of my permutations on it here: https://t.co/yZ8Nnkhp0U )

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