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Professor Of Neuroscience Says There Is No Difference Between The Male And Female Brain
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It has long been said that the male brain is like a waffle, with different trains of thought neatly separated into different compartments, while the female brain is like spaghetti, subjects highly connected and interrelated.
Scientific debate is contested on the subject of male and female brain differences; however, Lise Eliot, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Chicago Medical School and author of “Pink Brain, Blue Brain,” believes men and women are more alike than one may have thought.
“[T]he brain is a unisex organ,” Eliot said Monday at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. “There is absolutely no difference between male and female brains.”
Many argue these findings can be disputed depending on what the study of research is specifically measuring. There are plenty of scientists that give nature or nurture explanations to their results, Eliot being no different than others.
She cited a study done in 1970 as an example, The Atlantic reported. The study showed men outperformed women 13 to 1 on the math portion of the SAT, explaining why there aren’t more women in STEM-related fields. However, it turned out women were being discouraged from pursuing STEM. Once more women were encouraged to pursue STEM, the ratio dropped to 3 to 1.
Critics would argue levels of testosterone and estrogen, the main hormonal difference between men and women, would at least effect aggression in behavior and personality. Researchers found even “brain features correctly predicted subjects’ sex about 69–77% of the time,” according to an article published by The Cut.
Yet Eliot blames the world of academia scholarship, as well as the media for the ongoing argument over biological brain differences. “You go back to data, analyze it for sex, and if you find a difference, then guess what: You have another paper,” Eliot said.
She explained that size of doesn’t matter.
“We live in a gender-binary world,” Eliot stated. “The default assumption is that these differences are hard-wired … But male and female brains are not much [more] different from each other than male or female hearts or kidneys.”
Science has definitely not been spared from social politics or passionate worldview analysis.
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