It’s a simple concept but extremely illuminating. Mostly because of natural hormone specifics, females through different stages of development, gravitate toward specific social behaviors that shape their development as people.
She cites the original study (the one this replicated).
Infant girls track their mother’s face and social responses, in a way that boys simply don’t attend to (until many years later)
Articles like these make me miss pre-AI hacker news. A genuine and engaging study instead of the vast majority of articles now about another forgettable AI use case or mistake or advancement.
So if these cues are reliable, would it be possible to help children who are born ambiguously intersex? As in, to more effectively determine their developmental gender long before they themselves are aware of it, to more effectively implement the correct surgery needed?
Because right now it’s a roll of the dice, and doctors often get it wrong. Which leads to massive problems of alignment mismatch as they grow into adults.
> Professor Carrie Allison, Deputy Director of the Autism Research Centre and another member of the research team, said: “The differences we see don’t apply to all male or all female infants, and are only seen when you compare groups of male and female infants, on average. There’s a lot a variation within, and overlap between, each sex. Our future research needs to better understand that variation.”
Wandering in a Barnes and Noble in 2007, stumbled into The Female Brain and read it cover to cover.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Female_Brain_(book)
It’s a simple concept but extremely illuminating. Mostly because of natural hormone specifics, females through different stages of development, gravitate toward specific social behaviors that shape their development as people.
She cites the original study (the one this replicated).
Infant girls track their mother’s face and social responses, in a way that boys simply don’t attend to (until many years later)
Articles like these make me miss pre-AI hacker news. A genuine and engaging study instead of the vast majority of articles now about another forgettable AI use case or mistake or advancement.
Huh.
So if these cues are reliable, would it be possible to help children who are born ambiguously intersex? As in, to more effectively determine their developmental gender long before they themselves are aware of it, to more effectively implement the correct surgery needed?
Because right now it’s a roll of the dice, and doctors often get it wrong. Which leads to massive problems of alignment mismatch as they grow into adults.
> Professor Carrie Allison, Deputy Director of the Autism Research Centre and another member of the research team, said: “The differences we see don’t apply to all male or all female infants, and are only seen when you compare groups of male and female infants, on average. There’s a lot a variation within, and overlap between, each sex. Our future research needs to better understand that variation.”