
Rationally Speaking #239 - Saloni Dattani on "The debate over whether male and female brains are different"
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The Differences Between Women's Performance and Maths Performance
I think the question of whether there are innate relates to sort of the present environment. So for example, somebody might say, I don't know, 30% of the differences between women's performance and math is due to innate differences. And then they might say, well, look, there's a large role for the environment at present. There are lots of environmental interventions that are already taking place that affect people's performance. They don't treat it as something that can change over time. Let's say we find a new cure for some, some disease that affects women disproportionately and that would affect how innate the trait is later on in life when that cures discussion. Oh my God, I wish
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