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<blockquote data-quote="superstition" data-source="post: 7445785" data-attributes="member: 32866"><p>There is a difference between recognizing the power of socialization and claiming that there aren't significant innate differences between the sexes.</p><p></p><p>Pink clothes and footballs don't make boys fidget in elementary schools the way they do. It is beyond socialization. The blank slate hypothesis has been <em>disproven</em>. I learned that in social psychology at university. We are not blank slates. We have innate qualities. Not only that, are affected by the influence of sex hormones, both on an ongoing basis and in terms of their affect on us in the womb.</p><p></p><p>Some research has even found that gay people tend to have hybrid brains to some degree. The study found that gay men were, like heterosexual women, more likely to ask for directions when lost. Gay women, like heterosexual men, were less likely to ask. Of the four categories, heterosexual men were the least likely to ask and heterosexual women the most. I am gay and have known plenty of mannish lesbians. There are also some who look very masculine, like the tennis player Mauresmo. She is a good example of an androgynous person, in terms of natural appearance. It's not just socialization. It's physical difference. Other brain scan research found differences in the way intense brain activity tends to be distributed. The brains of intelligent females, in this research, show less intensity in localized areas than the brains of intelligent males. The take-away from those scans is that the male brain seems to heat up more in certain areas in order to accomplish the same work. The research was published in Time magazine. A feminist wrote about how, around age 8, boys begin to speak lower and girls begin to speak higher, despite having identically-sized larynxes. No one tells the boys and girls they need to start speaking differently at the age of 8. If it's socialization, why would there be that kind of uniformity? Well, one possibility is the pruning of neurons, a biological process that happens in the brain at that age.</p><p></p><p>From my experience as a teacher, I have come to the conclusion that it is probably more ideal to have single-sex classes until high school. I know that's not a popular opinion. The trend has been to put everyone into the same room, even people who aren't fluent speakers of the language and people who have very different IQs. I don't think it's particularly efficient, especially for the higher-level students. It's interesting that the alleged innovation is to return to the one-room schoolhouse model from something like Little House on the Prairie, only with less age mixing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="superstition, post: 7445785, member: 32866"] There is a difference between recognizing the power of socialization and claiming that there aren't significant innate differences between the sexes. Pink clothes and footballs don't make boys fidget in elementary schools the way they do. It is beyond socialization. The blank slate hypothesis has been [I]disproven[/I]. I learned that in social psychology at university. We are not blank slates. We have innate qualities. Not only that, are affected by the influence of sex hormones, both on an ongoing basis and in terms of their affect on us in the womb. Some research has even found that gay people tend to have hybrid brains to some degree. The study found that gay men were, like heterosexual women, more likely to ask for directions when lost. Gay women, like heterosexual men, were less likely to ask. Of the four categories, heterosexual men were the least likely to ask and heterosexual women the most. I am gay and have known plenty of mannish lesbians. There are also some who look very masculine, like the tennis player Mauresmo. She is a good example of an androgynous person, in terms of natural appearance. It's not just socialization. It's physical difference. Other brain scan research found differences in the way intense brain activity tends to be distributed. The brains of intelligent females, in this research, show less intensity in localized areas than the brains of intelligent males. The take-away from those scans is that the male brain seems to heat up more in certain areas in order to accomplish the same work. The research was published in Time magazine. A feminist wrote about how, around age 8, boys begin to speak lower and girls begin to speak higher, despite having identically-sized larynxes. No one tells the boys and girls they need to start speaking differently at the age of 8. If it's socialization, why would there be that kind of uniformity? Well, one possibility is the pruning of neurons, a biological process that happens in the brain at that age. From my experience as a teacher, I have come to the conclusion that it is probably more ideal to have single-sex classes until high school. I know that's not a popular opinion. The trend has been to put everyone into the same room, even people who aren't fluent speakers of the language and people who have very different IQs. I don't think it's particularly efficient, especially for the higher-level students. It's interesting that the alleged innovation is to return to the one-room schoolhouse model from something like Little House on the Prairie, only with less age mixing. [/QUOTE]
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