Re: AUT: critiquing biological determinism/ideology of difference

[Ilan Shalif <gshalif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If people want to get into genetics,
there is one gene related to the main difference
between genders.

It is a gene (allele) positioned in the X chromosome
with about 50% of each of two versions.

(When aberrant hormonal excretion in female
fetus result in heightened level of one hormone,
the ones influenced are become during life more hairy, tend to be tomboys
and are 15 points higher on the intelligence scale.)

The male ones either have one or the other.
The "masculine one" which is responsible among other things
to the wide disperse of abilities is recessive and is related to
both high intelligence and low intelligence.

Women have two XX chromosomes thus 25% do not have the
recessive "male" gene. 50% have one of each kind, but the
recessive "male" one is not expressed. 25% have both
Xs of the "mail" version.

The result is that whenever the expression of this
"male" gene is significant (with other things the same),
you will have twice male ones than female ones - as it is
in the common IQ tests that are loaded with "masculine" tasks.

> In the 1990s, however, Functional MRI studies, which
> are able to trace moment-to-moment changes in glucose
> concentrations in the brain, were claimed to show
> definitive differences in brain localization of men
> and women thinking in a particular linguistic task
> (Shaywitz, Shaywitz, and Pugh 1995).

The difference in brain hemispheres related to speech
was already old knowledge when I enrolled in the Psychology
department as under graduate freshman in the early 70s.

Neuropsychology probes were better suited to ascertain that
and were available even before the 60s.

> However only
> about half the female subjects showed the different
> localization from the males. The other half of the
> females showed the same result as the males.

May be this is related to the above 50% prevalence of the "male"
gene.

PS
Every serious research related to the emotional system
and the "emotional natural intelligence" reveal superior
perception and functioning of females.
Ilan



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