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.
On a daily basis, go for individuality every time. On the level of understanding gender differences, go with the evidence on gender differences.
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I guess I'm less confident than you about how easy it is to disentangle the two.
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I'm not confident of this at all. Hence having a thread about the problem of people having all or nothing takes on this rather than recognising that we are overlapping populations with trends. Where do you think we disagree?
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I think the evidence for differences is real but vastly overstated and that even when looking at group level differences it's far too easy to attribute stuff to biology. For example, at Google they aren't drawing from the population as a whole, they are drawing from the extreme
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I think some people overstate it and some understate or even deny it. That's what I'm talking about right now.
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