No such thing as statement itself, and JP (linguist and communication researcher) knows. This is/was my common ground with him.
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Very much in the realm of begging the question.
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That's kind of an overstatement. There is a diversity of approaches towards empirical study of cognitive differences related to gender
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What I meant is that how the question is phrased 'what causes sex (=m/f) differences?' presupposes a binary notion of gender (male, female).
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True, it does and that's a concern.
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Also, if one starts with this binary f/m notion, risk is that one is naturally led to see all deviations from it as pathology, rather than
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... as natural diversity which is actually empirical evidence against the binary f/m notion one started with.
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Iris, just wanna say I love everything you have said in this thread.

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Many topics close to my heart come together in this thread/discussion. Philosophy of science, science, ethics, theoretical psychology.
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Yessss! Well said. And this line of research is inherently biased because of that. Also important to not lose cultural perspective when
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evaluating the emergence of streams of research studying gender differences. Pure scientific curiosity likely wasn't the reason.
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