http://blogs.forbes.com/meghancasserly/2011/05/31/men-are-from-mars-women-are-also-from-mars/Men Are From Mars, Women Are (Also) From Mars
May. 31 2011 - 3:56 pm | 1,129 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
' Last week, Smithsonian published a list on the top ten myths about the human brain. Among them, that we only use 10% of the thing (false), that a conk on the head can cause amnesia (nope) and that humans have only five senses (try nine).
But with my lady lens on I couldn't help but be struck by the tenth bullet point on the list—the one that takes on the differences in the brains of men and women. Smithsonian contends:
Some of the sloppiest, shoddiest, most biased, least reproducible, worst designed and most overinterpreted research in the history of science purports to provide biological explanations for differences between men and women. Eminent neuroscientists once claimed that head size, spinal ganglia or brain stem structures were responsible for women's inability to think creatively, vote logically or practice medicine. Today the theories are a bit more sophisticated: men supposedly have more specialized brain hemispheres, women more elaborate emotion circuits. Though there are some differences (minor and uncorrelated with any particular ability) between male and female brains, the main problem with looking for correlations with behavior is that sex differences in cognition are massively exaggerated.
