The average British man is 69 inches tall & so it is universally acknowledged that men are taller than women even tho I am 69 inches tall and my closest male friend 65 inches tall. The difference exists, is expected and is remarked upon when it doesn't hold up as it often doesn't
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The same seems to be true of psychological differences tho obviously they vary in degree but we (nearly) all speak both empathetically AND factually, we (nearly) all like things AND people, we nearly exercise both cautious & risk-taking behaviour.
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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 is one of the points of James Damore's much-maligned Google Memo. His overlapping bell curves were included specifically to illustrate HOW MUCH they overlap & thereby argue that m/f differences wern't an excuse for gendered discrimination (1/2)
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Yes, exactly. Again, with the height example, our differences often look very much like this.pic.twitter.com/QPFIwpfjd0
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In your bell curve example, the variable is height. What was the variable in the bell curve chart james damore had in the memo? As i remember it was data free rendering of a chart, not an actual chart.
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Replying to @Clarissa10027 @hws5mp
Yes, I think it was just a symbol of what different distributions actually look like.
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Yes, so I'm curious how he proves anything about different distributions between m & f without even showing which variable he's talking about.
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Here is a meta-analysis of the memo's claims. https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/08/10/the-google-memo-what-does-the-research-say-about-gender-differences/ …
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