Archived (((The Atlantic))): "There Is No Biological Difference Between Male and Female Brains". (unz.com)
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Archived (((The Atlantic))): "There Is No Biological Difference Between Male and Female Brains". (unz.com)
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[–] iswallow ago
The title is a contradictio in terminis. Because if there are male and female brains, then there are biological differences between them. I'd argue there are no male and female brains (as opposed to for example male and female sex organs), but there are biological differences between the averages of brains of women and brains of men (the clearest difference is that the average of brains of men is bigger than the average brains of women).
[–] Eualos ago
They process information differently. You can tell immediately whether you are looking at a male or female brain with an MRI. There are male and female brains.
[–] iswallow ago
They process information differently, on average.
By looking at a single MRI picture you cannot see whether you are looking at the brain of a male or a female. You can compare the single MRI picture to the averages of the brains of men and women and then calculate a likelihood whether the brain belongs to a man or a woman. You can do the same thing for different brain areas, or different aspects of connectivity and functionality.
Just like there is no male and female heights, but there are differences between the averages of male heights and female heights.