Men and women really are *much* more alike psychologically than different but we notice subtle differences more than we notice similarities which we just take for granted.
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But those differences are significant and do affect our lives, our job choices and our relationships. If we don't acknowledge them, we'll be forever looking for the wrong solutions to problems and looking for solutions to problems that aren't problems.
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But to go too far the other way and insist that men and women are fundamentally different psychologically neglects the far greater degree to which we are the same and can result in a loss of shared humanity and individuality in our thinking.
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This however ignores the fact, that extremes to both ends have a different impact than the average trait. If there are more male than female nobel price holders, its due to the fact, that on the extreme ends men and women differ the more you come to the extreme.
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No need to ignore that fact. Pinker doesn't and I didn't in my thread.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/938394000066797568 …
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