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by scripturial 413 days ago
> There is no such thing as a "language brain" or a "math brain"

Tell that to the people who designed the study, the people that approved the study, and the people that funded the study.

At the end of the day, the study set out certain criteria for assessing certain skill types/competencies and divided the people by those well defined criteria. I think it’s pretty hard to argue against the idea that people might have at least some level of aptitude for different types of activity and skill.

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I think its worth noting the study did not actually make this claim, the news article did. I suspect the study authors would agree the term "language brain" or "math brain" is misleading.
The types of people who do these types of experiments almost never have a real understanding of math. They equate arithmetic with math.