"Women in STEM degrees preferred spatial toys [such as Lego] to the same extent as men and significantly more than women in non-STEM degrees." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1041608018301638 …pic.twitter.com/np89bMm45M
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"Women in STEM degrees preferred spatial toys [such as Lego] to the same extent as men and significantly more than women in non-STEM degrees." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1041608018301638 …pic.twitter.com/np89bMm45M
Lst's do similar cross-gender cognitive assessments for other types of professionals. Do female & male lawyers have elevated verbal & analytical skills relative to other professionals, yet unremarkable spatial abilities?
These authors seem to prefer the explanation that playing with certain types of toys might have caused the interest/cognitive difference? What if young kids who play with those toys were born with an inclination to those abilities, leading to their interest in those toys?
Kids of parents who expose their kids to Mozart/books, etc., in twin studies don't seem to show that these actions actually lead to the enhanced abilities? Instead, parents with those types of interests have smart kids who tend to do those things?
Genotype-environment interaction may well be at work, with kids having an inborn affinity for certain toys exposing themselves more to those, with exposure amplifying the given disposition. Behavior genetic studies confirm such interactions.
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