Hjernevask - Brainwashing (Eng Sub) Part 1 - The Gender Equality Paradox

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters cite it, especially during the Google memo debate, as expert testimony on biological contributions to gender differences.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

The Bookman

Topic

gender differences

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

10

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2018

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From the original HN conversations

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• watch this: [VIDEO] (even better if you see it all) biology comes before history, history can be a consequence of biology > If men turn out to be naturally, as a group, less good at math than women, does that mean we should stop training …

• > “I have friends who are anthropologists and primatologists and evolutionary psychologists … [who are under] an enormous amount of pressure to generate data that shows that all gender differences are cultural.” This documentary is really interesting in that regard: [VIDEO] It's a Norwegian documentary …

• Alright, I'll bite. But, I've never heard of any research suggesting women have a different cognitive capacity than men. I read some research a number of years ago suggesting cross-culturally women had better language skills than men, but I don't know if this is still …