Can't those be influenced by voluntary stuff like diet or number of children?
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Replying to @simone_s_86
The respective studies have weighed in a lo of statistical controls.
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Replying to @DegenRolf
So how would that even be explained? Those are supposed to be genetic traits. Or are they suggesting an association with hormone levels and such?
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Replying to @simone_s_86 @DegenRolf
Why are you looking for anything else than the fact men and women have evolved different behaviors driven by a different general psychology?
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Replying to @F1000pounds @DegenRolf
Waist-to-hip ratio isn't a behaviour, it's a physical trait. So how is a physical trait influenced by a cultural factor such as a country being more gender egalitarian? That seems like a worthy question to me.
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Replying to @simone_s_86 @DegenRolf
I read the last tweets too fast, I was referring to your "chose to 'fit the mould' " one.
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Replying to @F1000pounds @DegenRolf
Well, it's a possible explanation. So why am I looking for any explanation different from "it's just how men and women are"? Because that's the most obvious one, so it needs to be tested and prodded in all possible ways.
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Especially because it's been assumed as "common sense" for centuries and so it's much more likely that people tend to have a blind spot to its flaws. Lots of "common sense" stuff was believed for centuries and then debunked (the Sun revolving around the Earth, for example).
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If you're too invested in believing that men and women are different or equal you lose objectivity. Which is why this field is such a mess, because EVERYONE has one ideological expectation or the other and almost no one is truly unbiased. We've all got a horse in the race.
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Replying to @simone_s_86 @F1000pounds
The observation that sex differences are larger in egalitarian countries was not expected, it came as a big surprise to all researchers who made it. It was heavily tested in large, independent samples and was confirmed, to everybody's surprise. That makes it more credible.
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The largest, most systematic and sophisticated evidence came from a recent publication in "Science".https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1053160438609915904 …
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