More recently, maybe, but in general society assumes much about the sexes and makes choices accordingly (sexism).
We tried doing the gender neutral toy thing. It really doesn't work. So much evidence it doesn't work.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/747999269072867328 …
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So, what you're saying is that at age 3 a child is unlikely to go against conditioning. I'm playing devil's advocate.
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But I don't know what that means. She did go against it. We tried to get her interested in train sets. She resisted it. Just wasn't.
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But it's not Devil's Advocate. The blank slate has been the standard social science model for decades. Utterly orthodox. Needs challenging
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We couldn't condition her into thinking she wanted to race the trains. She wanted to give them a personality & make them talk to each other.
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And this comes up again & again & is found to be strongly indicated in metastudies. Girls more interested in the social, boys the technical.
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This is a survey of the metastudies on this.https://twitter.com/HdxAcademy/status/901130484004122626 …
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