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"[on the verbal scale of WAIS] men have shown a small advantage in almost every standardized sample since the inception of the WAIS. In originally devising his IQ test, Wechsler omitted tests that yielded large sex differences (such as mental rotation tests), the intent being to equate IQ scores obtained between men and women. So it is despite this aim that there is a slight edge for men on the Verbal IQ..."
— Oct 28, 2016 04:44PM
“Most spatial tests show some advantage for men, who excel particularly at imaginal rotation and targeting. Women, however, are generally better at recalling the position of objects in an array, and at remembering landmarks along a route. It appears that men navigate primarily with reference to the abstract geometric properties of space, whereas women tend more often to use specific objects to find their way. (...) Finally, the presence of parallel sex differences in nonhuman species raises doubts about nurturing practices as major influence on the sex difference in cognitive pattern." p. 64
Thankfully Kimura consistently writes about sex differences, and completely eschews the grammarian’s term “gender”.. The writing is a bit on the dry side, but this far very interesting.
The book opens with quoting Kenneth Hilborn: “When science ignores fact in favour of ideology . . . it ceases to be science and becomes propaganda for a dogma.”