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#622 - David Geary - Why Science Says Men & Women Will Never Be The Same

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

David Geary is a cognitive developmental and evolutionary psychology professor at The University of Missouri and an author. Men and women are different. This should not be a controversial statement, and yet it is. Thankfully David has spent a career assessing differences between men and women in every domain from physical to psychological and behavioural to cognitive. Expect to learn the real reason why women are underrepresented in STEM, why achieving true gender equality in prosperous countries is impossible, the massive differences between men's and women's brains, why strength is not the most compelling argument against trans athletes in female sports, why there has been such a rapid increase in transgender youths and much more... Sponsors: Get the Whoop 4.0 for free and get your first month for free at http://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get over 37% discount on all products site-wide from MyProtein at https://bit.ly/proteinwisdom (use code: MODERNWISDOM) Get 83% discount & 3 months free from Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Check out David's writing - https://quillette.com/author/david-c-geary/ Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's happening people? Welcome back to the show. My guess today is David Gerey. He's a cognitive, developmental and evolutionary psychology professor at the University of Missouri and an author.

0:11.0

Men and women are different. This should not be a controversial statement and yet it is.

0:17.1

Thankfully David has spent an entire career assessing differences between men and women in every

0:21.4

domain from physical to psychological and behavioral to cognitive.

0:25.3

Expect to learn the real reason why women are underrepresented in STEM, why achieving true gender equality

0:31.3

in prosperous countries is impossible.

0:34.0

The massive differences between men's and women's brains,

0:36.8

why strength is not the most compelling argument

0:39.6

against trans athletes in female sports,

0:41.9

why there has been such a rapid increase in transgender

0:44.7

youths, and much more.

0:48.8

This episode is absolutely awesome.

0:51.7

David's insights are fantastic. Sex differences are absolutely awesome. David's insights are fantastic. Sex differences are

0:54.3

absolutely fascinating. It's perfect. I live for these kinds of insights. There is

1:00.3

so much cool stuff in here. There are easy rebuttals for the next time that somebody tells you the only reason that men and women are different are because of socialized and learned responses.

1:10.0

It's awesome. I really, really hope that you enjoy this one.

1:14.0

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1:17.0

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1:19.0

Some ungodly number of you are just raw dog in it totally freewheeling and not

1:23.6

subscribed hoping that you can remember when new episodes go up that's not very cool

1:27.1

so go to Spotify and press the follow button in the middle of the screen or there is a

1:30.9

plus in the top right-hand corner Apple Podcasts. I thank you very much.

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