sam0345 comments on Gender differences in spatial reasoning appear to be nurture - Less Wrong

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Comment author: sam0345 04 September 2011 05:31:58AM 3 points [-]

(and are supposed to hand over cash earnings to their wife or sister).

This alleged aspect of matrilineal societies is more piously hoped for by white ivy league anthropologists, than actually observed.

Comment author: Vaniver 04 September 2011 06:14:56AM 1 point [-]

Indeed. It was somewhat obvious when reading the paper that they tested the degree of male dominance in the patrilineal society but reported no such tests in the matrilineal society.