What Sex is Your Brain?

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Maybe that's cause it's harder to devise computer tasks to measure all those fuzzy womanly things like language and empathy. I'm v sceptical of the questionnaire tasks where you rate your own empathy by errr answering questions on how empathetic you are. Not much opportunity for self-delusion there, oh no.

I'd like to have been able to see the full faces after doing that floating eyes task.

xxpost

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Not only self-delusion, but second-guessing the quiz. It's not exacty hard to figure out that if the question is "I like to weepily listen to the problems of my fluffy bunny friends" and you check "gosh yes!" they're going to rate you more feminine.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

And then we have tea and a good goss! I just love that.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, apparently I am Australian. Or would that be "gossie"?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I find the insinuation that women are disinterested in politics (because we don't like complicated things! Let's go to the mall!) quite offensive. Not to mention oppressive - hey little lady, don't bother to get involved in government! It's a systematic, complicated process that you, with your female brain, couldn't possibly understand or be interested in.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Say, that's a pretty reasonable, male point.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

ALSO - after you type in words that mean the same as the word they give you, it says, "Did you know that, on average, women use 15,000 words a day while men use 7,000?" This claim has been widely debunked. That's pretty weak research, or just blind adherence to stereotypes over actual science.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Math is hard.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Now let's forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry ice cream!

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i found it difficult to not to deliberately score poorly on the female brain tests in ph34r of the results saying LOLLOLOLOL U R FAG

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe the BBC's test IS the actual science and it's all a stunt to test some third hypothesis, like how many internet people spend five minutes trying to track down a fucking ruler just to get some lame result re: "brain sex"

― TOMB07 (trm), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I totally made up my finger measurements. I'm not going to get a fucking ruler.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

also: that thing with the finger lengths has nothing to do with one's brain, has it?

lololol xpost

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

COULD NOT FIND METRIC RULER IN WHOLE HOUSEHOLD. Gave up at that point.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I made it up, why would anyone actually go find a ruler? If you can guess the difference then you don't need the exact measurement.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

COULD NOT FIND METRIC RULER IN WHOLE HOUSEHOLD. Gave up at that point.
-- Laurel (sininspac...), January 2nd, 2007.
I made it up, why would anyone actually go find a ruler? If you can guess the difference then you don't need the exact measurement.

-- Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (garance8...), January 2nd, 2007.

women...

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The finger-length thing is supposed to come from testosterone exposure in the womb, which in turn predicts your ability to read maps, obv.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes but it isn't looking for actual hard length, just which finger is longer and by about how much. So, ruler is unimportant, they could've just asked you "Which is longer, ring or index?" and garnered a similar answer.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

cause they said every millimeter counts and i didn't want to upset the internet web page quiz with fradulent data

― iiiijjjj (iiiijjjj), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

The leaps and bounds of logic in this whole thing never cease

left thumb on top ---> left hand is DOMINANT ----> right BRAIN is dominant

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I have had difficulty finding a girl that I can talk politics with.
And then fuck.

srsly tho - I don't know why but I do find way more guys are into the politics than girls.

giganto xpost!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe you're just uncomfortable having an intellectual conversation with a girl.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

ladies and gentlemen, Bill Maher.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost, obv

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i do not know what that is supposed to mean.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Absolute zero!

Though on the finger thing I got a ratio of 1.05, and I prefer feminine faces. I judged the faces by their eyebrows.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

who on earth owns a ruler past primary school? fuck that

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I have one at my desk.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

And if you have £50 to split two ways, you get £25 each, any other answer is just wrong.

I have a tape measure (I was measuring furniture earlier)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a quilting/sewing ruler but it's Imperial-only!! Stupid Britishes and their metric system.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I have about 20 of them at work.

My middle finger is about 18 1/2 picas long.

xpost And if you have £50 to split two ways, you get £25 each, any other answer is just wrong.

I KNOW! WOMEN ROUTINELY SCREW THEMSELVES OUT OF MONEY? IS THAT THE IMPLICATION HERE?

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, those eyes all said nothing to me.

We invented Imperial + all our rulers have both measures!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly tho - I don't know why but I do find way more guys are into the politics than girls.

Because women have traditionally been excluded from the political arena and are often told from birth that they should be more interested in other things like empathy and keeping house because of their brain structure, thus reducing the number of women actually interested/involved in politics.

xpost - I don't get the logic of not splitting the money down the middle, either. Any other answer just seems stupid. Who wouldn't agree to an even split? Other than Germans, apparently. Also, the only ruler in our house is a point ruler for font stuff.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

XP to Jel: (I know! And most of our rulers have both systems, too, but my quilting one is made for lining up geometric parts so has to have straight lines all the way across = no combining systems.)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

That £50/£25 thing was bizarre! I was all "£50 between us? That'll be £25 each, ho hum la-dee-da easy money... WHAT?!?! Oh I'm sorry I missed out on an opportunity to be a greedy selfish bastard!"

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

This is why women still make less money than men. They just don't want it as much.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Who the fuck is telling little girls this?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a shit question really. it didn't say whether this other person is your friend/someone you know either, or in what setting this is done. (or did it? i didn't pay enough attention!) is it like some kind of DEAL OR NO DEAL gameshow situation??

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Their fathers.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

That said, I don't know any women who, when I start talking about politics, are like, "That's very nice. I think I'll go do the dishes!"

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I hate deal-in-a-vacuum questions like that. It reminds me of the one where they give you the chance to risk, say, $5,000 on a coin-toss, and if you win you get $12,000. Sure the reward outweighs the risk, but maybe someone just can't afford to risk losing $5,000. Course, if I could do it ten times I'd take the bet in a second. (xpost)

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Who the fuck is telling little girls this?

Well, the BBC's "What sex is your brain" quiz, for one.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Ended up a little more male than female. Not too much, though -- just enough. Longer ring fingers (just barely), decent spatial mapping, preference for female faces apparently counterbalanced by a surprisingly strong ability to read eyes. Okay.

― adam beales (pye poudre), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - But you said yourself, "I don't know why but I do find way more guys are into the politics than girls." So that means either brain chemistry or societal conditioning, and unless you buy the brain chemistry argument, which is akin to saying that women are biologically unable to participate effectively in politics, that means somebody or something has to be sending a message to women that politics is not for them.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Here's where I stand on things like male/female differences:
Men and women, on average, have different aptitudes and weaknesses as well ans certain personality traits that are applicable to that gender.(proofread my grammar, please. I no think god when no smoke)
However, these are merely averages and aptitudes.

Thus, these tests are worth two 3" hills of fuckbeans.

― Geza T iz tha Rainy G. Toronado (The GZeus), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i got a very-slightly-more-female score (then mistakenly closed the tab, so I've forgotten what it was), but it seemed to be solely because I could think of lots of words, since I got 'male' scores on pretty much all else, incl the testosterone-addled ring finger. Though apparently I have right-brain dominance, whoop-de-doo.

The results page was wierd, it made these generalisations about 'the male brain' and 'the female brain' but the difference between male and female average scores that it gave was miniscule - on the judging-emotions-by-eyes thing, the average score for men and women was the same, so why would you believe that women were 'generally' better at it than men?

― cis boom bah (cis), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I scored 25 female. And I got 11 out of 12 in the 3d objects thing. Also, the average for one of the tests was the same for both male and female, but in the end blurb they still stated that scoring one way or the other was more feminine. Huh?

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, xpost with cis. Yes, what the hell was that about?

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

SEX BRAIN QUIZ

1. YOU HAVE A PENIS

a. yes
b. no

2. YOU HAVE A VAGINA

a. no
b. yes

MORE FEMALE BRAINS RESPOND TO BOTH QUESTIONS WITH b. MALE BRAINS GENERALLY RESPOND TO BOTH QUESTIONS WITH a.

― TOMB07 (trm), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

My metric/inch ruler is hanging from a nail, a SPECIAL NAIL JUST FOR MY RULER. But I could only click on one object in the "what object has been moved" thing. When you have a bad brain you need a special nail for everything!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

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