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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I do think that men and women think differently, and it'd probably be really interesting to see how that's impacted in their work.
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I agree -- also, I think that people overlook that when they say things like "women don't conceptualize math the same way as men" that there's a continuum, and that there are going to be individual women who conceptualize math the way an average male does, and that there are going to be individual men who conceptualize math the way the average woman does.
While the Summers stuff was still big in the news, I happened to grab a very very old Newsweek to read at lunch and it had a (couple? few?) piece(s) on how looking at brain waves and the differing abilities of men and women to figure out stuff like spatial relations vs. what people's feelings are by looking at a picture of just their eyes, autistic kids are like super-"male"s and, as one might expect, the vast majority of autistic kids are male. There was also a little sidebar or mention of some opposite-of-autistic thing where a person is extremely empathic but has no clue about spatial relations (or whatever).
Anyway, basically I find all of this very interesting. I definitely, definitely agree that there are, on a general level, sex-linked differences in how people process information.
