The important thing to remember for ~every~ gender-related study you see: The differences within genders almost always VASTLY outweigh the differences between genders
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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