Talk:Biology of gender-specific human behavior

message: I am new to Wikipedia and am part of a Honors class at North Carolina State University that is focusing on research about sex differences within the brain (neurobiological aspect).  I have added some information under the "Brain" section on the structural differences of grey matter and white matter.  I feel that the paragraph right after the first quote should be considered for deletion due to the fact that there is no cited source and is slightly redundant.  I marked it as "needs citation".
Sonador412 (talk) 01:53, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  new information 

message: I notice a fair bit of "women are under-represented in science" POV has been added to the article. Wiki is not a platform for feminism, however noble the cause. The biology of gender is a constellation of reliable, published scientific data, not a political agenda.
Articles like this one tend to need maintenance, because people:
* simply delete information they don't like;
* introduce weasle words to minimize the facts or undermine the sources; or,
* provide discussion of political, ethical and other issues that are simply irrelevant.
It's a waste of everyone's time to do such things.
The discussion of "women in science" at one US campus, however notable, is not a description of the biology of gender. I'm removing it. It can be recovered from the history and relocated to a more appropriate article. Alastair Haines (talk) 12:45, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: POV stuff

message: I'm confused by the "Aptitude" section. First better female verbal skills are mentioned paired with no gender differences in the mathematical ability, than an older study is cited in which the results seem to be reversed (unless "distributions [..] essentially equivalent" is taken to mean same variance but different average). Anyway this contradiction, pertaining at least the mathematical skills, is not adressed.--88.72.201.11 (talk) 18:12, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest finding a source that addresses it, then.  Our job, as I understand it, is not to reconcile conflicting information from different sources, but simply to report the information neutrally.  Blackworm (talk) 21:20, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Verbal and mathematical skills

message: "John Money and Milton Diamond made great progress towards understanding the formation of gender identity in humans." Although John Money was considered a pioneer in gender research in the 60s and 70s, his ideas and methods have been largely discredited by the scientific community since the 90s. Saying that he made "great progress towards understanding the formation of gender identity" is somewhat misleading and a bit too generous I'm afraid. It's also strange that Milton Diamond is mentioned in the same sentence, as he was one of the people involved in discrediting Money. This sentence makes it sound like they were colleagues! Robert Stoller would be a better person to mention in regard to pioneering gender research. Kaldari (talk) 20:48, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've changed the sentence to just "Scientists made great progress towards understanding..." instead, which avoids any controversies or differing opinions on the impact or importance of individual researchers in the field. Kaldari (talk) 20:52, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Money and Milton Diamond 

message: The article starts off by claiming "The biology of gender is scientific analysis of the physical basis for behavioural differences between men and women. It is more specific than sexual dimorphism [...]" But practically every biology source I've looked at contradicts this, e.g.  It may be defined as the lead claims in women's studies, but in that case it shouldn't try to pretend it's a biology article. Tijfo098 (talk) 21:36, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  seems a [[WP:MADEUP]] field of study 

message: Could someone please comment on my question at Talk:Sex and intelligence? Thanks. --Aronoel (talk) 16:18, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the difference between this article and [[Sex and intelligence]]?