The important thing to remember for ~every~ gender-related study you see: The differences within genders almost always VASTLY outweigh the differences between genders
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Basically, the difference between me and the other guys in my group is probably going to be way bigger than the difference between our group of guys and another group of women
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A good example is the maths/spatial ability thing. Whilst it's been largely debunked anyway, even at its height people were making a huge deal out of the difference
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I.e. "Boys are better at maths! Science says so!"
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But the thing is, even when it was routinely considered a thing, the difference between boys and girls in terms of maths ability was very minimal
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This tends to hold true for virtually every gender difference you find. They're usually very small effects, not the enormous difference people make them out to be
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Note: this is largely when we're talking socially-influenced traits like intelligence or maths ability, NOT when we're talking medical/biological issues where there are obvious and large differences
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Note (cont): for example, you find far less diabetes in women and far more prostate cancer in men
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