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Particularly as a woman, I was interested in this question. I actually want to know how my

psychology, my personality or my brain function may differ on average from men.

And it was just a fascinating question to me.

So I read all of the papers that I could and I spoke to scholars.

And it was really heartbreaking to hear how scholars felt maligned and they were name called as sexist for trying to study

this very important topic.

And now the Good Fight with Yasha Monk.

My guest today is Claire Lemon. Claire is the founder of Kelet and she also regularly

writes for the Australian newspaper. Claire and I had a really interesting conversation about

some of the remaining taboos in social science.

Why is it that so many people are resistant

to thinking seriously about empirical facts

that may somehow undermine their preferred political theories?

How does that apply to questions like whether or not there's sex

differences in personality or perhaps in the way that we perceive and think about

the world? To what extent are we still in the grips of what Stephen Pinker

called the blank slate fallacy.

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