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by newnewnew 4547 days ago
Sexual dimorphism is incredibly common in the animal kingdom, and humans are not an exception.

You are setting up a non-falsifiable belief system that asserts that men and women cannot be different above the neck. If that's what lets you sleep at night, who am I to deny you your comforting faith?

But you are fighting against mountains of evidence for cognitive differences between men and women. Are they all cultural? I'm friends with a few post-treatment transgendered people, and I'm inclined to believe at least that hormones have a powerful impact on personality.

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Some things are non-falsifiable. And I find it funny that you follow up that accusation with anecdotal thoughts about hormones.

Just because we haven't found a falsifiable way to test a hypothesis doesn't mean you can take "mountains" of research that make very specific conclusions and randomly apply them to whatever generalization you want to.

It's good to have on record that you believe in sexual egalitarianism in homo sapiens regardless of any evidence that can be brought to bear.

I posted this (admittedly incomplete) list of resources down the page, but let it not be said that I did not do my anti-progressive duty today: http://jaymans.wordpress.com/hbd-fundamentals/#sex