What I find with these tests is that it's easy to cheat if you know what traits are stereotypically female. It's interesting though, if you know what the test is looking for you can sway the results, which begs the question, If you can
learn to recognise things that women are supposed to be better at, and vice versa, are we then not reprogramming our brains to become more 'female' ? I mean, it's commonly known that the repetitive conditioning/learning of one task makes us better or quicker at it. We can also
un-learn things too, should you want to, by doing things less.
I thought it would be interesting, for us stuck in a world where some are mostly concerned with the aesthetic part of transition, to get a perspective from the
inside instead. Not necessarily
from the test itself, but what the test is
supposed to measure.
The interesting thing, that Victoria touched upon, I read some time back is that transsexual brains seem to score higher than natal females, in some tasks, after time due to this learning process which makes things become second nature.
And the digit ratio thing...Yeah, I know, funny...
Quote from: Victoria Mitchell on December 03, 2013, 05:55:04 PM
It's interesting but, unless any of us get access to a study which uses an FMRI to analyze trans brains, we won't know one way or the other how this applies to us as a demographic.
Sure, I completely agree. In this respect we are, I would imagine, a bit more complex. Even though this test deals with well known stereotypes, those of us wanting to do something during transition to get us a little further down the line, while we wait for HRT or the next expensive aesthetic step, could take a stereotype or two from this test and learn/un-learn, re-program as it were, until as much of it that we want becomes second nature. What if these 'stereotypes' combine to be little building blocks that influence the way we act, you know, things like our sentence structures, deportment etc..
Quote from: JennyH on December 03, 2013, 07:35:19 PM
I don't like this test it says I have a male brain.
Then stop having a male brain!
Try re-programming. And before anyone mentions flashing lights, spinning discs and LSD
, try using the stereotype in your everyday life, as obvious as you need it to be, if it's possible, until it becomes second nature. You never know, it may work. Then try the test again.
