Thinking Together About Female/Male Differences:
Do They Exist? What Are They? Does It Matter?

Lincoln High School - Bryn Mawr College
March 2001

DO FEMALE AND MALE BRAINS MAKE UP WHAT THEY SEE DIFFERENTLY? - Study 2

PREDICTIONS:

Females/males not different	Females see left arrows first	Males see left arrows first
(not made)	(not made)	(not made)

OBSERVATIONS:

Females		Males
left	right	left	right
19	2	17	5

ANALYSIS:

See left first - of everyone	See left first - of females	See left first - of males
84%	90%	77%

CONCLUSIONS:

Different brains do make up things differently
Not all female brains, nor all male brains, make up things the same way
In this class, a greater pecentage of female brains than of male brains made up the left pointing arrows

Thinking Together About Female/Male Differences:
Do They Exist? What Are They? Does It Matter?

Lincoln High School - Bryn Mawr College
March 2001

DO FEMALE AND MALE BRAINS MAKE UP WHAT THEY SEE DIFFERENTLY? - Study 2

PREDICTIONS:

Females/males not different

Females see left arrows first

Males see left arrows first

(not made)

(not made)

(not made)

OBSERVATIONS:

Females

Males

left

right

left

right

19

2

17

5

ANALYSIS:

See left first - of everyone

See left first - of females

See left first - of males

84%

90%

77%

CONCLUSIONS:

Different brains do make up things differently
Not all female brains, nor all male brains, make up things the same way
In this class, a greater pecentage of female brains than of male brains made up the left pointing arrows

QUESTIONS:

Similar questions as in Study 1
In both this and the previous study, female brains tended to be more similar in what they made up while male brains tended to be less similar. Is this robust? Would it hold in additional cases, populations?

Thinking Together About Female/Male Differences:Do They Exist? What Are They? Does It Matter?

Lincoln High School - Bryn Mawr CollegeMarch 2001

DO FEMALE AND MALE BRAINS MAKE UP WHAT THEY SEE DIFFERENTLY? - Study 2

PREDICTIONS:

Females/males not different

Females see left arrows first

Males see left arrows first

(not made)

(not made)

(not made)

OBSERVATIONS:

Females

Males

left

right

left

right

19

2

17

5

ANALYSIS:

See left first - of everyone

See left first - of females

See left first - of males

84%

90%

77%

CONCLUSIONS:

Different brains do make up things differently Not all female brains, nor all male brains, make up things the same way In this class, a greater pecentage of female brains than of male brains made up the left pointing arrows

QUESTIONS:

Similar questions as in Study 1 In both this and the previous study, female brains tended to be more similar in what they made up while male brains tended to be less similar. Is this robust? Would it hold in additional cases, populations?

Thinking Together About Female/Male Differences:
Do They Exist? What Are They? Does It Matter?

Lincoln High School - Bryn Mawr College
March 2001

Different brains do make up things differently
Not all female brains, nor all male brains, make up things the same way
In this class, a greater pecentage of female brains than of male brains made up the left pointing arrows

Similar questions as in Study 1
In both this and the previous study, female brains tended to be more similar in what they made up while male brains tended to be less similar. Is this robust? Would it hold in additional cases, populations?