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

Shadow Dancer insomniac at winterslight.org
Fri Jul 12 23:39:41 EST 2002


And what I did supply wasn't good enough?  Did  you even look at the
material?

"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:MyNX8.25245$Iu6.1365299 at bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> i was hoping you'd supply peer-reviewed refs. standard Journal articles,
> mostly with respect to your claims re. gender-differential 'randomness'.
>
> that'd be 'interesting'.
>
> k. p. collins
>
> Shadow Dancer wrote in message ...
> >Here are some I just dug up:
> >
> >http://www.brainplace.com/bp/malefemaledif/default.asp
> >
> >For some really scientific stuff:
> >http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~kc/Hemi/CogNeuro97.html
> >
> >Here is some stuff on brain shrinkage with age - looks like the male has
a
> >disadvantage:
>
>http://www.docguide.com/dg.nsf/PrintPrint/30F67BF5DA97292E852565AA0054575D
> >
> >Here is a Google cached page with some very interesting data on it:
>
>http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:Gv6JWusC0bgC:www.epub.org.br/cm/n11/me
> n
> >te/eisntein/cerebro-homens.html+male,+female,+brain&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
> >
> >And here is a scientific paper which clearly refutes any notion that the
> >female brain is inferior to the male's:
> >http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Thompson/psychsex.htm
> >
> >And yet another:
> >http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/heshe.html
> >
> >My terminology was wrong, I meant the corpus callosum.  Either way, women
> >use their entire brains more efficiently than men do and, once again,
size
> >does NOT matter :P
> >
> >
> >"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> >news:DRuX8.94644$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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