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[quote=Anonymous]PP at 13:17 -- this study?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2040300/

According to "Boys Adrift", this study shows that " If you teach the same subjects to girls and boys in the same way, then by the age of 12 or 14, you will have girls who think "geometry is tough" and boys who believe "art and poetry are for girls." " (see http://www.singlesexschools.org/research-brain.htm)

But it doesn't show that.

It also doesn't show that "the language center of a typical boy's brain at 5 looks like the language center of a typical girl's brain at 3". For one thing, the graphs start at age 7. For another, "the parietal lobe integrates sensory information from different modalities" comes from Wikipedia, which goes on to add "particularly determining spatial sense and navigation". So not "the language center".

(For what it's worth, Leonard Sax plays fast and loose with the science. Here's an entertaining read:  http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003487.html)

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