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Rationally Speaking #239 - Saloni Dattani on "The debate over whether male and female brains are different"

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The Contrasting Claims About Sex Differences in the Brain

I have the feeling that people are making contrasting claims that are not necessarily in contradiction with each other. So sometimes people will say there are sex differences and they're caused by socialization. And other times they'll say actually there are no sex differences in the brain or that they're so small that they're insignificant. Those are two different hypotheses, one both of which kind of quote-unquote blame culture,. but one of which is that the brains are the same we just behave differently because we're responding to different incentives.

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