Very, very happy to be nit-picked - I was expecting it! I knew you had specialist knowledge.
I use gender instead of sex because of the risk of confusing noun and verb.
And of course you are completely right about the stats.
I think the danger of over-simpliying sex-differences is the risk of stereotyping, but that doesn't mean that in general there may not be things that women do better than men and vice versa. It is just that we should expect all women to be better than all men - and hence we should think about people as individuals.
The patterns can be interesting though - and I have always wondered why I can pack the fridge or the car better than my wife! ("Better" of course means "in ways which suit me"...)
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I use gender instead of sex because of the risk of confusing noun and verb.
And of course you are completely right about the stats.
I think the danger of over-simpliying sex-differences is the risk of stereotyping, but that doesn't mean that in general there may not be things that women do better than men and vice versa. It is just that we should expect all women to be better than all men - and hence we should think about people as individuals.
The patterns can be interesting though - and I have always wondered why I can pack the fridge or the car better than my wife! ("Better" of course means "in ways which suit me"...)