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by no1ne 3895 days ago
>> myth is that the differences are innate or "biological"

erm...please read

1. Genomic differences between developing male and female brains in the womb-- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150203190223.ht...

and if you still feel that somehow humans try to gender stereotype whilst the fetus are still in the wombs, then read this also-

2.Sex differences in rhesus monkey toy preferences parallel those of children-- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/

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I was referring to mental rotation ability, I clarified it in an edit.

I also don't have time to go into the studies you linked about general differences but similar studies have been debunked before. For example with 1.5 day old infants where the experimenters knew about the sex and their bias subtly corrupted the experiment and it did not reproduce when the bias was truly accounted for.