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From: "Ann White" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: Sex differences
> oops - "too PC" should have been too politically incorrect!
>
> Ann White wrote:
>
>> Not sure how many are interested in this theory but here's a very recent
>> article:
>>
>> http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i26/26a01201.htm
>>
>> Fairly comprehensive airing of sides for his theory, though not alot of
>> depth. Baron-Cohen says it's testerone levels. His naysayers ask: why
>> then do any females exhibit autism?
>>
>> I think we're talking apples & oranges when it comes to empathy &
>> systems. Apples = cultural patterning. Oranges = genetic predisposition.
>> Baron-Cohen says he's been convinced of the maleness of autism since the
>> 1990s but it was too PC to advance in the US. Now that the (cultural)
>> climate is receptive (ie the extreme end of the intelligence pendulum
>> has dipped to new lows), he is coming out with his ideas.
>>
>> There are (of course, what else) tests on the web for autism and empathy.
>>
>> Ann
>>
>
Thanks for giving the link Ann. I havent got up to autism in the book yet
but he is very convincing on systemising and empathising.
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