Re: IQ and Testosterone?

Bryant (mycol1@unm.edu)
2 Sep 1996 17:43:21 -0600

In article <yRrKy0O5IIYH084yn@teleport.com>,
Larry Caldwell <larryc@teleport.com> wrote:
>Stephen Barnard <steve@megafauna.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow, talk about jumping to conclusions! Which "prejudice" do you
>> disagree with:
>
>> * that "MRI data show that men and women use different parts of their
>> brains to do the same tasks," or
>
>Yep. That's a load of horseshit, pseudoscientific simplification foisted
>upon the ignorant to justify prejudice. In fact, some men and some women
>use different parts of their brains for different purposes, and the
>variation can be profound within the same sex and altered by training.

I clearly stated that different pathways lead to similar outcomes.

Such a statement supports no prejudice.
It is only as "pseudo-" scientific as magnetic resonnance imagining
technology itself is.

>> * "I've also seen fine science done by female brains"

Bryant