FLASH! GIRLS AND BOYS ARE NOT THE SAME!
Yes! That’s the shocking conclusion reached by
He’s confirmed something that other studies have shown before–that girl babies respond more to faces than boy babies do–but the twist is, he’s shown it earlier in life than previous studies have. Specifically: He’s shown that the phenomenon exists 24 hours after birth.
It’s interesting to see the politically correct environment he has to deal with in his field. Folks have been so determined to explain ALL sex differences based on training and environment that he actually feels the need to say things like this:
The results of the experiment were that we found more boys than girls looked longer at the mechanical mobile. And more girls than boys looked longer at the human face. Given that it was a sex difference that emerged at birth, it means that you can’t attribute the difference to experience or culture. Twenty-four hours old. Now you might say, well, they’re not exactly new-born, it would have been better to get them at 24 minutes old — or even younger. But obviously we had to respect the wishes of the parents and the doctors to let the baby relax after the trauma of being born. And let the parents get to know their baby. So strictly speaking, it might have been one day of social experience. But nonetheless, this difference is emerging so early that suggests it’s at least partly biological.
His story also goes into a lot of related, interesting subjects, such as the origin of autism and the effects later in life of prenatal exposure to testosterone. Fascinating reading.
