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Old December 27th, 2013 #1
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Yes, because sexism is sexism.

I'm sure you're not offended by the fact that men have higher average IQs than women, right? Or how men outnumber women 8 to 1 in IQ scores above 145? Or how men are categorically stronger, quicker, and overall athletically superior to women on average?

And i guess all of these facts aren't sexist, right? Yesterday 1:24pm

http://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfi...are-different/

And before you start screaming about how biased Forbes is (which they are), notice how the "145+ IQ" study wasn't done by Forbes. It was done by a peer-reviewed psychologist from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Forbes just did an ARTICLE on the study. All of the other IQ data that's cited in the Forbes article are from independent, credible scholars. Again, not done by Forbes. Yesterday 2:39pm
 
Old December 27th, 2013 #2
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...60289606000250

http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.com/...rences-in.html

"Data from a number of representative mental test surveys, involving samples drawn from the national population, have become available in the past twenty years in the USA. These have finally provided consistent results. Both Feingold (1992b) and Hedges and Nowell (1995) have reported that, despite average sex differences being small and relatively stable over time, test score variances of males were generally larger than those of females. Feingold found that males were more variable than females on tests of quantitative reasoning, spatial visualization, spelling, and general knowledge. Hedges and Nowell go one step further and demonstrate that, with the exception of performance on tests of reading comprehension, perceptual speed, and associative memory, more males than females were observed among high-scoring individuals"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_dif...y#cite_note-61
 
Old December 28th, 2013 #3
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The cutting edge of technology is pretty close to 100% male.

Paul Graham Says Women "Haven't Been Hacking For the Past 10 Years"



Does YC discriminate against female founders?

I'm almost certain that we don't discriminate against female founders because I would know from looking at the ones we missed. [...]

The problem with that is I think, at least with technology companies, the people who are really good technology founders have a genuine deep interest in technology. In fact, I've heard startups say that they did not like to hire people who had only started programming when they became CS majors in college.

If someone was going to be really good at programming they would have found it on their own. Then if you go look at the bios of successful founders this is invariably the case, they were all hacking on computers at age 13. What that means is the problem is 10 years upstream of us. If we really wanted to fix this problem, what we would have to do is not encourage women to start startups now.

It's already too late. What we should be doing is somehow changing the middle school computer science curriculum or something like that. God knows what you would do to get 13 year old girls interested in computers. I would have to stop and think about that.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-gra...81236/@maxread

Notice the words on the photo. See, when people are truly interested in something, you don't have to make it interesting for them. You can't keep them away. That's how it is and was with the people who invented computers and software. Read any book about a Silicon bigwig. Now it's a mature industry, but read about the people who got the thing started.

All wimmin do is whine about gaps when they ought to be grateful the things they take for granted exist in the first place. If it were up to women, they wouldn't. That's the irony.
 
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Of course women aren't interested in computers. The simple truth of the matter is that women are only interested in the social manipulation of other people. So when the media praises women for being more "social" than men just read between the lines and know that most of this "social" interaction by women is hostile and based on having power over others.
 
Old December 28th, 2013 #5
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All great inventions, that we can not live without these days, were done by the White man. I'm just glad I was born white, my own race created such wonderful creations. I am proud.

White Men are more superior than anyone else. Feminism is wrong and sexiest.
 
Old February 11th, 2014 #6
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Males and females differ in specific brain structures

February 11, 2014
University of Cambridge

New study examines thousands of brains from two decades of research to reveal differences between male and female brain structure.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0211094201.htm

Reviewing over 20 years of neuroscience research into sex differences in brain structure, a Cambridge University team has conducted the first meta-analysis of the evidence, published this week in the journal Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.

The team, led by doctoral candidate Amber Ruigrok and Professors John Suckling and Simon Baron-Cohen in the Department of Psychiatry, performed a quantitative review of the brain imaging literature testing overall sex differences in total and regional brain volumes. They searched all articles published between 1990 and 2013. A total of 126 articles were included in the study, covering brains from individuals as young as birth to 80 years old.

They found that [B]males on average have larger total brain volumes than women (by 8-13%)[/B notice how they disrespectfully say 'males' while respectfully saying 'women'; that's either sloppiness or ideology]. On average, males had larger absolute volumes than females in the intracranial space (12%; >14,000 brains), total brain (11%; 2,523 brains), cerebrum (10%; 1,851 brains), grey matter (9%; 7,934 brains), white matter (13%; 7,515 brains), regions filled with cerebrospinal fluid (11.5%; 4,484 brains), and cerebellum (9%; 1,842 brains). Looking more closely, differences in volume between the sexes were located in several regions. These included parts of the limbic system, and the language system.

Specifically, males on average had larger volumes and higher tissue densities in the left amygdala, hippocampus, insular cortex, putamen; higher densities in the right VI lobe of the cerebellum and in the left claustrum; and larger volumes in the bilateral anterior parahippocampal gyri, posterior cingulate gyri, precuneus, temporal poles, and cerebellum, areas in the left posterior and anterior cingulate gyri, and in the right amygdala, hippocampus, and putamen.

By contrast, females on average had higher density in the left frontal pole, and larger volumes in the right frontal pole, inferior and middle frontal gyri, pars triangularis, planum temporale/parietal operculum, anterior cingulate gyrus, insular cortex, and Heschl's gyrus; bilateral thalami and precuneus; the left parahippocampal gyrus, and lateral occipital cortex.

The results highlight an asymmetric effect of sex on the developing brain. Amber Ruigrok, who carried out the study as part of her PhD, said: "For the first time we can look across the vast literature and confirm that brain size and structure are different in males and females. We should no longer ignore sex in neuroscience research, especially when investigating psychiatric conditions that are more prevalent in either males or females."

Professor Suckling added: "The sex differences in the limbic system include areas often implicated in psychiatric conditions with biased sex ratios such as autism, schizophrenia, and depression. This new study may therefore help us understand not just typical sex differences but also sex-linked psychiatric conditions. It is important to note that we only investigated sex differences in brain structure, so we cannot infer anything about how this relates to behaviour or brain function. Integrating across different levels will be an important goal for future research."

Professor Baron-Cohen commented: "Although these very clear sex differences in brain structure may reflect an environmental or social factor, from other studies we know that biological influences are also important, including prenatal sex steroid hormones (such as fetal testosterone) as well as sex chromosome effects. Such influences need to be teased out, one by one."

Dr Meng-Chuan Lai, another member of the team, noted: "The advantage of conducting a meta-analysis is that we can summarise the best knowledge from a vast, heterogeneous literature, with a very large sample size. However, we found a bias in the existing literature towards the use of volunteers over 18 years old, probably because this is the easiest age group to recruit and to brain scan. We need more research exploring brain development over the entire lifespan, especially in the early, formative years."

Journal Reference:

Amber N.V. Ruigrok, Gholamreza Salimi-Khorshidi, Meng-Chuan Lai, Simon Baron-Cohen, Michael V. Lombardo, Roger J. Tait, John Suckling. A meta-analysis of sex differences in human brain structure. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2013; DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.12.004
 
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