Re: Gender differences

Mary Beth Williams (mbwillia@ix.netcom.com)
20 May 1995 13:13:54 GMT

In <3piummINNsrt@hpsdlmc1.sdd.hp.com> geroldf@sdd.hp.com (Gerold Firl)
writes:
>
>>God knows what would
>>happen if I started asking about *neurological* sexual dimorphisms in
>>humans!
>
>Already proven, although probably not over the full racial spectrum.
>Scientific american presented some of the latest results about a year
ago.
>Clear differences were shown between male and female cognitive
processes.
>

I would be very careful to use the term *already proven* for a
hypothesis which is still very controversial.. I'm not saying I agree
or disagree myself, but only point out the fact that this idea is still
debated widely (particularly if anyone here followed the intense debate
on Arch-L earlier this year...)

MB Williams
Wesleyan