What I'm asking you to do is to take the social facts of tribalism and stereotyping as seriously as you take research on group differences.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/901442126407376902 …
If we scientists 'take them seriously' by your standards, do we get to teach or write about sex diffs at all? If so, when, exactly?
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Those are judgment calls based on context. Academia is a good place to research such things. It has stronger institutions to prevent misuse.
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But calls for public self-censorship are trickling back into academia, stigmatizing the research itself. Truth is becoming disposable.
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Influence of societal beliefs and conditioning about gender is impossible to factor out.
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What about the sex diffs that show up consistently across all 5,400 species of mammals? Is that social conditioning?
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There's a ton of research on gender differences, some of it exceptionally bad, that exists and is publicized and written about.
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I don't know or see what repression you are talking about. There's a big stumbling block to good research: absence of a control group.
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Also the brain/body responds to influence and conditioning, making it hard to determine which comes first.
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Read Cornelia Fine's Delusions of Gender. Signed, a woman who aced logic and did all her own programming.
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Also computing was a woman's field until the 60s/70s because it was viewed as clerical grunt work.
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