Newborn girls and boys show different attention patterns within hours of birth(medicalxpress.com)
12 pointsby theanonymousone3 hours ago4 comments
  • MarkusWandelan hour ago
    Only a quick skim, and - hey I'm in Canada, so I can still talk about gender issues, right? What about "born into the wrong body" types? Who always felt they belong in the other gender and eventually transition? I guess it would be hard to test at scale, but would they at birth already exhibit the "other gender" behaviour patterns?
    • nsvd2an hour ago
      This would be incredibly hard to test because you'd have to have the results of the study and then wait a few decades to see who ends up identifying as transgender. Also the amount of transgender people is a small fraction of the population so you'd need a larger total sample size for the same statistical significance.

      My experience interacting with transgender people is that transgender men and cisgender women have a lot of things in common and visa versa, so I would expect this to follow that pattern, but it would be interesting to see it studied.

  • Avshalom24 minutes ago
    Method here is a little iffy I gotta say. They had people just watch video and judge which direction the baby was looking, then average the closest two.

    also the total difference is like a second and a half out of 70.

    also also a parent had to hold the child which introduces a mechanism of biasing.

  • BoxwoodSeed2 hours ago
    Quite obviously? Male and females are differently wired, so to speak. A Norwegian comedian did an entire documentary about it back in 2010 [1].

    [1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWHTKnB0jqZD9cR0zMpNL...

    • stronglikedanan hour ago
      You'd think it would be obvious, but we're in a post-truth society at the moment, so it just depends on who you ask.
  • HelloUsernamean hour ago
    Sorry. What?