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Chive, Look! Your golden opportunity (Re: brain sizes: Einstein's and women's)

Kenneth Collins k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net
Fri Jul 12 22:57:32 EST 2002


i was hoping you'd supply peer-reviewed refs. standard Journal articles,
mostly with respect to your claims re. gender-differential 'randomness'.

that'd be 'interesting'.

k. p. collins

Shadow Dancer wrote in message ...
>Here are some I just dug up:
>
>http://www.brainplace.com/bp/malefemaledif/default.asp
>
>For some really scientific stuff:
>http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~kc/Hemi/CogNeuro97.html
>
>Here is some stuff on brain shrinkage with age - looks like the male has a
>disadvantage:
>http://www.docguide.com/dg.nsf/PrintPrint/30F67BF5DA97292E852565AA0054575D
>
>Here is a Google cached page with some very interesting data on it:
>http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:Gv6JWusC0bgC:www.epub.org.br/cm/n11/me
n
>te/eisntein/cerebro-homens.html+male,+female,+brain&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
>
>And here is a scientific paper which clearly refutes any notion that the
>female brain is inferior to the male's:
>http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Thompson/psychsex.htm
>
>And yet another:
>http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/heshe.html
>
>My terminology was wrong, I meant the corpus callosum.  Either way, women
>use their entire brains more efficiently than men do and, once again, size
>does NOT matter :P
>
>
>"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>news:DRuX8.94644$UT.6252873 at bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>> i'd like to take a peek. please direct me to the data to which your
>> statements refer [by as direct a route as possible, please].
>>
>> k. p. collins
>>
>> Shadow Dancer wrote in message ...
>> >Chive doesn't have to.
>> >
>> >If you know anything about the "wiring" of male versus female brains,
>then
>> >you would know that women use their brains far more efficiently than men
>> do.
>> >
>> >The cerebral cortex of a man's brain behaves as though damaged, allowing
>> >only the random signal to travel from one side to another.  Other than
>> that,
>> >most neural firing is confined to either one side, or the other.
>> >
>> >Women, however, have a f, lly-functioning cerebral cortex and neural
>firing
>> >is nearly constant across this 'bridge', using the brain far more
>> >efficiently.
>> >
>> >Bwah.
>> >[...]
>>
>>
>
>





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