It's interesting & strange the way so many people think that being told of average traits for a gender equates to pressure to conform to it.
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I am constantly getting clickbait on Facebook that says 'Only 10% of people can see this illusion, get all these questions right.'
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I think this speaks to the attractiveness of seeing oneself as part of an elite. Not a total outlier but not typical, common, average either
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I wish we could see cognitive & psychological gender differences in the same way as we see height differences. Unexceptional. Not loaded.
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For women, anyway. Different for men, sadly. I'm 5 ft 9. The average height for men but in the 90th centile for women so not uncommon.
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No-one gawps at me in the street or makes comments coz its known that whilst more men are this tall or taller, so are millions of women.
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Of course, the difference is that society did have set gender roles & jobs for men & women for centuries & this was moralistic.
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It was restrictive & it hasn't entirely gone away. Some social conservatives uphold the idea of 'natural roles' in a moralistic sense.
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Others just notice trends & make assumptions based on them w/out having a moral commitment to them. Better not to make such assumptions.
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As a statistician, my observation would be that, on average, most people don't understand the concept of averages
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The problem is "if everyone is special then no one is"
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I have real problems with the fetishization of "specialness" that I can't really go into in 140 char, esp when fighting a cold :P
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And that's leavg aside that seeing oneself as "special" can easily b/c "I'm *better* than those stupid sheeplike normies!" Not a good look.
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But again too long 2 go into in 140 characters
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There is a big literature on the latter... ...Dunning-Kruger effect! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect …
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