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As a case in point, Buss and von Hippel highlight the recent book Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds by psychologist Cordelia Fine – a text that argues against biological differences between the sexes (and in favour of sociological explanations) and which won wide praise from journalists and left-leaning scientists around the globe, while at the same time receiving scathing criticism from evolutionary biologists and psychologists with relevant expertise in evolutionary science.
Buss and von Hippel argue that Fine and others are motivated by social justice goals (in this case gender equality) to reject findings from evolutionary biology and psychology[.]
The hell you say.
Greg Cochran over at West Hunter did a thorough takedown.
ReplyDeleteI looked that up. It's here, if anyone wants to read the takedown for themselves.
ReplyDeleteIt is mind-boggling that a discipline of study that finds influence over human minds and accomplishments arising from such differences as birth order; date-of-birth (establishing eligibility to start school or hockey team membership; lies told BY teachers about superiority of brown-eyes over blue eyes or vice versa; lies told TO teachers about whether or not they had been assigned a classful of "gifted" students; nudging and priming and operant-conditioning ... somehow comes to the conclusion that SEX differences DON'T make a difference.
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