On Nov 27, 2010, at 10:24 PM, Jim Devine wrote: > Mike Ballard wrote: >> I enjoyed listening and posted the link to my FB page. Cordelia's >> expositions on biologised gender delusions were about what I expected; but >> had no scientific knowledge to back up e.g. girls preferring faces and boys >> preferring mobiles; the whole 'left brain'/'right brain' prejudice, magnetic >> imaging studies....< > > In his book THE ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE,Simon Baron Cohen (Sascha's > cousin) argues that males lean toward systematizing (making mobiles, > theories, etc.) while females tend toward empathizing (paying > attention to faces, emotions, etc.) Of course, this is on average: > there's a lot of overlap. He sees having autism as being the same as > having an "extreme male brain."
As it happens, Fine spends a lot of time in her book refuting Baron-Cohen's work, and does some of that in my interview with her. Basically, his evidence is fairly flimsy. Doug _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
