No Noodles

Wonderful animation.

http://www.sharesomecandy.com/2012/07/tyler-nicolson.html

Myths and Facts About Gender Differences in the Brain

Great article. Nice and clear.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-myths/201207/two-myths-and-three-facts-about-the-differences-in-men-and-womens-brains

Same Planet. Sorry Y'all.

As usual, the data shows that we're more alike than most people want to admit.

Source: http://www.bakadesuyo.com/do-women-and-men-really-communicate-different

Yesterday's Toothpicks are Today's Baseball Bats: fMRI ≠ 42

Another in a string of reasons not to get too enamored of the idea that fMRI scans are scientific mind reading. Turns out they miss a lot activity that might be important.

"These papers illustrate the fact that conventional fMRI is a blunt instrument that often only tells us about the most straightforward events that happen in the brain. A bit like how we only hear the shouts and screams from through our neighbor's walls, not their normal conversations, which aren't loud enough to reach our ears."

Source: http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2012/03/brain-scanning-just-tip-of-iceberg.html

For the Douglas Adams impaired, 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Hannah Rosin's Lying Statistics

I read Hannah Rosin's "End of Men" article in the Atlantic when it came out. I remember that it just felt wrong, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why. Well, Derek Rose spelled it out for me. It was wrong. Way wrong.

Source: http://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/men-at-work-objecting-the-end-of-men-and-celebrating-masculinity-in-the-workforce/

A little cooperation here

Yet more research money spent on questions they could have just asked me. I suppose it's being a small difference s why they felt they needed a study. I'm annoyed enough by the lower level of cooperation in all-female groups to notice it. Source: http://www.bakadesuyo.com/are-men-or-women-more-cooperative

Multitasking: Another Gender Myth Bites the Dust

This doesn't surprise me in the least. I have always observed that people (myself included, of course) do things poorly or half assed when they try to do multiple things at once, and I know lots of guys who do it as well as it can be done.

Source: http://www.bakadesuyo.com/can-we-really-multitask-are-women-better-at-i