Saturday, May 26, 2018

brain size

Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man?: "A fascinating paper about sex differences in the human brain was published last week in the scientific journal Cerebral Cortex." - Toby Young writes about the study, which found correlation between brain size and cognitive abilities, and that woman's brain on average is smaller than man's (make your own conclusion from these two premises).

He keeps humbly apologizing in every other paragraph, but still he presses the point. The article itself is not very interesting beyond the outline in the previous paragraph, but there are so many people and books mentioned that it's worth saving. Also it would be interesting to find other references to this paper about sex differences.

Also there's another article by Toby Young published in 2015 about intelligence being genetically determined and the consequences of this for the society: The Fall of the Meritocracy, also lots of people and books mentioned.

related: Harrison Bergeron - short story by Vonnegut, mentioned in one amazon review of John Rawls's book A Theory of Justice (1971)

от себя добавлю: Ломброзо возвращается. size matter. and shape - too.

see also Toby Young tweets: the comments that led to his resignation

and somewhat related The document that got me fired from Google by James Damore

also Sex Differences in the Adult Human Brain

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