Are There "Male" and "Female" Brains?
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- If you looked at a male and female brain side by side, would you be able to see any differences?
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I am a zombie and I can't taste the difference. But if you give me more I might find something.
zombie blood *spread zombie legs*
zombie blood what is it like to be a zombie? Is it any better than being a human?
:O
zombies can't speak they can only say brains brains brains
😆
Conclusion: every brain is unique and differs slightly.
Conclusion: there isn't enough data to definitively say how sex, and possibly gender, affect the brain.
*other then average overall size.
Duh?
What data has been gathered on traits shows a significant overlap between sexes, so though females and males averages may have differences in certain traits, the differences found within groups so far are so large that even if the difference reaches statistical difference, those traits in a *random individual* can't be comfortably predicted just based on sex.
Conclusion: men & women brains differ slightly.
"every brain is unique"? Err...did you watch the same video? He specifically mentioned throughout the whole vid that there are differences between the sexes on average. We just aren't sure what causes them or what to make of them yet.
"I don't think we should be playing with brains." Ugh, okay, Mom.
I don't understand why brain size is the leading hypothesis for how intelligent a creature is. Wouldn't brain *complexity* be more important? Why is it believed that the *volume* of a brain makes any difference?
That's like saying: "My computer is bigger and requires more electricity than yours, therefore it's faster."
We have smaller and faster computers than ever before, and they run on electrical signals, much like the brain. It's not a perfect comparison, but I don't see why we haven't learned from this anyway.
Octopus have a large brain to body ratio. They're very clever for sea creatures, but I would hardly put them on the same scale as great apes and humans.
They have lower body to brain ration. Also when you consider inteligence you need to understand that you are looking at it from your human perspective. Octopus intelligence for example could be something different your human brain cannot comprehend.
I see what you're saying, but I'm going to stick with the human scale for intelligence since the animal kingdom hasn't come up with a scale yet. lol.
i think it's a mix of how large and how dense it is, i completely agree
This is an old comment and I'm no expert but see the thing is, it's like with computers; the more you have to process, the more processing power you need. So if male brains are, on average, slightly bigger than female brains... and male bodies are, on average, slightly bigger than female bodies, that makes sense.
Whales don't have bigger brains because they are smarter than us, they have bigger brains because they have much bigger bodies and you need something to manage all of that chonk, there's so much going on inside your body that the brain has to manage.
I can't say whether or not there are significant differences in male and female human brains, but based on the information in this video it would totally make sense if our brains functioned more or less the same despite being different sizes, since they are both more or less adjusted to be the same relative to our own body size.
Differences also don't imply that one kind is better than the other. Apples and oranges are different but they aren't on an ordered scale.
cavalrycome Yes. Each has functions that work with the others
Oranges are far superior ;)
'Different but equal' is a popular clarion call nowadays, since pushing the superiority agenda has fallen out of favor. It may be true, however, the interesting thing is how so many people advance it as a non-problematic thing to say i.e. as if it has no consequences and hence shouldn't be controversial. It very much has consequences. You can, for instance, quite readily claim that the female deficit in engineering is a direct consequence of 'different but equal', even without claiming that engineers are superior. But is it? Or is it due to cultural or sociological factors? From the other side, women could claim that the male deficit in nursing (one of the few jobs expected to grow massively in our automated future) is due to men simply being not suited to it. Both claims being 'on average', of course, so as to inure them anecdotal counterclaims. Whether you think 'different but equal' is true or not, and I'm not arguing one way or the other on that, it's important that we accept that it ISN'T some innocuous claim that has no consequences.
@Mendicant Bias
I'm not entirely sure, but you seem to be using the phrase 'different but equal' with the meaning of treating people equally even if there is an average difference between the sexes in some ability, which I agree is controversial (the differences-in-abilities part, not the treating-people-equally part). Although, even if there are detectable differences in _average_ ability in the kind of skills required to solve engineering problems, that wouldn't justify excluding anyone from pursuing a career in that field.
What I'm actually talking about is something else though. My experience is that most people automatically interpret differences between the sexes as ordinal differences that involve men (on average) being better or worse on some scale than women. Proficiency in the kind of skills required to solve engineering problems would actually be an example of that rather than what I'm talking about, whereas differences in preferences between the sexes that lead them to pursue different kinds of jobs or activities would not be an ordinal difference. Men and women could have exactly the same level of competence in the various skills required to be a good engineer while having different views about whether that would be a fulfilling career.
It seems to be true that men are on average more interested in pursuing jobs that are viewed as high-status and women are on average more drawn to jobs that are more social. Personally, the more social option seems like a more fulfilling life because the pursuit of high status often involves working long hours, sacrificing time with friends and family, and dying alone on an expensive sofa, but if men are disproportionately pursuing the high status option, they will always have more power over women (on average), which isn't good either. Excepting this problem, I think the goal we should be striving for is a society where everyone is allowed to pursue, and is encouraged to pursue, whatever they want to do, and that goal could in principle be satisfied without the sexes being equally represented in every field of work (depending on whether there are real differences between the sexes in preferences on average).
cavalrycome, that is probably the most eloquently I have ever seen this opinion expressed and I wish I more people see this the way you do and I wholeheartedly agree with every single point.
The better question how big is the impact of hormones and other things that interact directly or indirectly with the brain.
After I started hormones I feel differently but don't think differently. I still have the same likes and dislikes. What has changed is how I act in any given situation because how I feel about the situation.
I'm sure my brain will be different in 5 years then it would be if I didn't start hormones.
Kristi Marie thank you for your insight, this is what i assumend,
i guess you agree that the hormones won't change your sexual preference right?
So what do you think where this oreference is if not in the hormones or (as the video claimed) the brain?
I don't think hormones will change your sexual preference. It might make you more comfortable accepting who you like. So, from the outside it could look like your sexual preferences changed but I don't feel like there are any fundamental changes to who you are attracted.
There may be differences in the brain between males and females but I think it's more complicated then that. I feel like society plays a huge roles. I'm treated much more delicate now, men take time to help me with things that never would of happened when I was still a dude. It makes me wonder if I would be as independent as I am now, since I never would of needed to be in the 1st place. I really wonder about newborns brains, are they the same at birth and devlop differently as they get older due to society or is it because of what is predetermined by ones sex?
Sorry kinda ranblmed at the end.
What is this? A reasonable comment on a video about sex differences? And a _polite discussion following it?!_
*dramatically inserts half baked angry comment*
It's only controversial if you think the conclusion backs the idea that one gender is ultimately better than the other, which it doesn't.
@gypsy lab and gender
Ok
Tell that to feminists on tumblr
It's also controversial as the differences are inconsistent as he said in the video
@gypsy lab exactly, its made up by society, so there really is no gender
It's a bit like asking _"Are there Male and Female heights?"_ Most of the tallest people are men, and most of the shortest people are women. But around the averages the individual variation outweighs the group trends.
Andy Brice great analogy, thanks
I don't think that you can say "the average man is smarter than the average woman " or did you mean it in a different way?
"But around the averages the individual variation outweighs the group trends" - this is a common remark, but it doesn't really mean anything much, beyond reminding us that averaging things clips off the extreme values.
But human height is not really a good analogy, if the object is to demonstrate that human sexual dimorphism isn't a thing. Adult women span the range 4' 8" to 6'. There are virtually no women outside that range. Adult men span the range 5' to 6'6". There are virtually no men outside that range.
Moreover the average male height is about two standard deviations above the female. Which means that only about 2% of women are taller than the average man. And only about 2% of men are shorter than the average woman.
None of this proves anything about the brain of course, but height is not a good trait to show the lack of sexual dimorphism in humans. Using it shows that the standard of "no overlap at all" between the two populations is not a sensible standard. It excludes things - like height - which are plainly dimorphic.
@@leemoore5212 What is suprising is that they are more men under 4'10 than women.Which means they are more male dwarves
i dont get the individual variation outweighs the group trends around the averages. Wouldn't saying around the averages mean that people would be more generic and similar to each other as thats the average, and the average is the grouping of people with the most similar traits and characteristics. Or am i misinterpreting this?
I think we now have to expand this proverb:
"Man are from dead cold irradiated desert, women are from melting acid-packed hell"
Sounds accurate.
Lmaoooo
That explains a lot, actually.
Interesting
Best descriptions of Mars and Venus that I've seen in a while
"Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"
Sure.. just leave out all of us from Europa. Typical.
Pluto... poor Pluto
I'm from Pluto were are like ten feet tall. Big people small planet no privacy at all .
thanks for a non binary lol
But what if I'm from earth
What?
The part about how women are more often diagnosed with depression and anixety made me wonder how the study was concluded. Mainly because it's common to not socialize men into admitting mental health problems so I'm wondering if that has any bias.
It 100% does. Plus, women think that them getting anxiety once a month is them having a horrible disorder.
And in women's lives, there is a lots of subconcious worry about sexual/physical safety which men generally do not need to feel. And level of it depends of the enviroment and influences that you are born in. That could explain how women are more prone to anxiety.
(And I am sure that this is not full reason (it is just a theory) and I am sure that many people will be eager to deny that this has anything to do with it, but sometimes the reason could be the most simple one. It is not THAT long ago that women were property of a man and could been sold by their husband in England. Not legally. But that did not stop it happening.)
@@haroldlemar5569 just because men are socialized to not show weakness and therefore don't admit to any problems they may be having doesn't mean a women's problem is lesser or a joke, both can be equally true, it's not a competition. What's up with the 'feeling anxiety once a month thing' dude? Also women do actually live in a world where they are more at risk for danger and (mostly physical) harm
mmm whatcha say That’s the point I’m trying to make, they are equal. The obvious problem is that men’s mental state isn’t taking seriously. I’m not saying all women do this, but I’m talking about the ones that only do it for attention and overreact
Men in my family didn't get depressed, they got drunk.
I still don’t get why people are so angry about this? Are people mad because they are running out of excuses to be sexist? We are very alike; many of our differences are due to socialization.
Men and Women's brains are different, it has been shown by scientists.
Our differences do not stop at the neck.
In gender equalitarian countries the gap between genders in jobs, crimes, , personality, e.t.c has been shown to be higher than in non equalitarian
Shiloh can you specify where did you get those statistics? I want to verify them
*most of our differences
@@karteltheinterrex4335 just google it but get it from a scientific research website with citations not some buzzfeed feel good article
They’re mad bc they know they’re bending the truth in fear of retaliation
There was such a missed opportunity to call this channel psyshow
izzy yu This is even worse than “Now You See Me 2”
TheRecreator
Yeah but now you see #metoo
Newsflash: The world isn’t just black or white.
TIL
That concept is just too revolutionary for our edgy 12 year olds.
It's not just black or white, but there are many things in it that are. That's why we can have math and science.
Peanutbudda
A few problems: 1. Math has no relation to reality, 2: Science tries to use math to approximate reality, but will likely never perfectly describe reality.
its not black and white, and its not gray, its a RAINBOW, unless your blind or colorblind.
@@angeldude101 math has a magnitude of relation to reality what are you talking about
Question: Are male and female brains different?
Answer: Funny of you to assume 50% of the people have similar brains.
more funny, that these 50% have no duties as their 50% to build roads, invent stuff and fight on the battlefield
Suhel Mullick funnier that 50% bother to care for children that think they have no duties. Fools, and brainwashed to be emotionally cripples.
Suhel Mullick Yikes.
It's scary when there are creeps in your reply section.
@@GMPranav really scary when simps and thots crowd the comment section pretending to be normal sentient human beings?
We must evaluate also neuron density and interconnectivity. There is some evidence that those are much more important than size.
Juan D. M. Wat? Lul
Marcelo Mazocco much more.
That would still put men ahead, so that's not gonna happen. They considered doing the same thing with gray matter, but the results didn't really agree with current year dogma so they're not widely publicized. The only reason size was ever even discussed was because it was so physically obvious.
@@SackyBalls444
Actually though?
Does neural connectivity favour men?
@Rockstar Games Launcher
Yup.
Thing is, differences in brain structures imply differences in learning styles and methods to acquire knowledge.
It's not like there aren't intelligent people with learning difficulties who accomplished much more than those without.
I hate people saying that he's trying to be politically correct, when it seems to me he's just trying to be clear and logical, and explain this science from the data that's been collected in an accurate way.
I know. Like, saying "We don't know yet" isn't exactly a crazy stance to take when it comes to neuroscience as we understand it so far. Very young field of study.
AlfredAskew And he doesn't want people to misunderstand about what we do know.
Anton-Constantin the people who wrote his script were trying to be politically correct
I was expecting Hank to talk ''something'' even a little reference about the stria terminalis in the hypothalamus but....
OK.....
I feel like he was bouncing around his own questions because the answer doesn't fit the current social climate, else he would've said "Are male and female brains different: Yes, yes they are and we've known that for decades."
But that's not something you can say these days even though it's true. Today the truth isn't as important as people's opinions and safe space and that's regrettable.
Lots of studies have attributed the greater prevalence of anxiety and depression in women to social influences.
And beyond that, the rates of diagnosis. Men are pretty strongly disincentivised socially from admitting to emotion or vulnerability, as well as seeking help.
Not just social influences but hormonal
@audiosamples I'm calling bollox unless you have proof.
Yes I believe women are more apt to go to therapy and therefore more likely to get diagnosed
@@preciousinfinity you need proof that women dont want girly men???
"Even if size does matter, bigger isn't necessarily better."
-Hank Green, 2018 AD
So accurate! 😁😁😁
bigger is better if the reason one gets big is because of muscles; the strongest punch recorded was done by francis nganouu and he was a heavyweight fighter in ufc
Grew up with teachers constantly saying math and science were for boys and making me feel guilty for knowing all the answers.
Made me hate my class. Umm still good at it and never got less than a B on math classes and was the only woman to pass the AP tests in my HS but I hate math class. It's sad.
Males in general tend to be better at tasks that involve mathematical abilities and spatial awareness,it's just a statistic,that's the main reason why men are generally more represented in jobs that require physical activity such as construction work for example.
@@Seageass01 , no , they aren't.
They just happen to already have those jobs while women have been taught to go for jobs with the roles of care takers like nurses, teachers, social workers, etc. Not because they are statistically better at jobs with emotional labor for being women but because what society told them made them chose those careers that then show up in statistics as "preferred" by women and then people create the correlation that they must be at those jobs more because they are better at it than men... Which is not true.
The same applies to men and math and spatial awareness.
@@Norimarisu : If there are mostly men working in technical fields I assure you there must be an underlying reason which is linked to anatomy and brain wiring,your statement does not have a point.
@@Norimarisu : I'm not saying that women lack technical competence but,looking at the big picture,it's undeniable that technology has always been,for the most part,a male domain,of course there are women engineers but they are a minority compared to the amount of men who are involved in this sector,try to visit a building site and see how many women are present.
@@Seageass01 , there reason is society, not biology.
They thought the same things about most jobs before men were sent to war and women had to take their place in the workforce.
They thought the same things about black people and jobs that weren't manual jobs
For centuries women could not have jobs, houses under their name, loans, etc. so when they could finally have jobs they were only allowed the less threatening ones that would not deviate from their roles as care takers. They could not be doctors, they had to be nurses. They could not be lawyers , they had to be secretaries. Schools would not even admit them so how could they?
Now we can all apply to the university of our choosing but it wasn't always like that. And it doesn't help that until recently boys grew up with the cool toys about building castles and doing slime while girls grew up taking care of dolls.
The things that are taught to you growing up have a long lasting effect.
Also, up until the 60s the tech field was full of women before men took over like they did with comic books and video games for like 40 years.
It annoys me when people are accused of being politically correct when theyre just being factually correct
God of Beans why do you think that this is factually correct?
Zechariah Cameron Because he looked at studies.
@Gao Zhan I don't think theres much evidence that prehistorical societies predominantly had matriarchies, while there is evidence some did I think mostly it was more patriarchal or didn't really have a clear leader. I dont think its impossible to just celebrate our diversity and what it contributed instead of hating on it, after all weve been getting so much better at it over time, and while I'm sure setbacks are bound to happen that general trend seems likes its continuing.
@Gao Zhan
How are females "oppressed in today's society"?
How were males oppressed in prehistoric times?
@Neil Mo i really hope you are joking
Moral Solution: Judge people as individuals, and not as representatives of their sex. You'll get more accurate results about someone if you do!
Keep going science. You'll get there, but until then, let's just treat each other right and not worry about it.
_____________You see being called a male or a female as a judgement?
Wish I could do that, but some people force their gender onto you. Idc what your gender is, if you're nice I'll be nice and try to respect your pronouns, but if you're mean why should I try to be nice and use words outside of my normal vocabulary. I know I SHOULD be nice but so SHOULD they, right? Why is the burden on me to accommodate them if they cant accommodate me? And I dont mean accommodate them by recognizing their gender identity as part of who they are, I mean accomodate their wishes for me to respect them. You cannot demand my respect or kindness, especially if you are not respectful or kind.
@@zalvian22
__________________Using their choice of pronouns is not a showing of respect. It's a showing of compliance.
Bro true. Like my sexuality is based on many many things and not necessarily gender. I think we all have cultural compulsions to create gendered dichotomies in the way we think and perceive things
@Praise The Masculine Flames That would probably come from both society and the fact that people tend to see their group as more diverse and generalize the other. So, you, being a man, most likely interacts more with other men, and thus knows their nuances better than you know women's.
I'm gonna agree with the fact that males and females are more alike than different, from a common sensical perspective and the statistics that this guy laid out for us.
For the common sense part, I'm referring to sociology. If you're tought growing up that you're a boy, and because you're a boy, you have to be violent and like cars, then of course you're going to believe that and live by that. I'm a straight male, yet I can't go two second without telling my friends "I love you" or "you're a sweetie pie." The truth is, if men had different brains, I wouldn't be acting like that. If you just look in regular society, with your friends, they're all different and not roppes into one category of interests or behavior because they are female.
At the end of the day, we are all human with different personalities and interests. How we got those is shaped by the world around us, growing up in specific ways, there's literally no other way to explain it. We are not a bunch of copy and paste droids, we are people with sentients and emotions all differing from person to person.
I truly agree with you. I am glad to to another individual agree with this point.
So glad to find a comment without a stain of misogyny and radical feminism.. The hope for humanity is still alive!!!
@@TitaniumTronic A sliver of hope but maybe we can make it grow! Lol
Simple. End of discussion.
This video successfully answered the question with non-answer 😂😂😂
That's most of psychology
I mean they answer erything, they talk bout ladies having regions which are more thick and they also talk bout males having larger brains.
And how basically these differences are pretty much insignificant once scaled to size and insignificant when tryna predict behavior. So differences exist but are very small. Not large enough to have complete certainty in every brain 🧠 but maybe large enough to invest money into it 👀.
@@sylvesteruchia5263great point. Whatever the differences are they aren’t showing itself to be significant
"There are clear specific male and female characteristics, but most people are a collage of both"
So in other words "there are no clear specificic male or female characteristics"
ehh, there are things the seperate us and make us different actually.
There are characteristics that they find MOST OFTEN in one sex's brain than another. However, if you look at hormones, males ALSO make estrogen, and females ALSO make testosterone, it's just that one sex tends to make more than the other.
Like this: the midsaggittal plane of the corpus callosum TENDS to be larger in females than males. About 4x larger in comparison to the rest of the brain. Like he said, it could be because female brains are compensating for smaller size. However, they've found similar ratios in transgender people. Transwomen's tend to be comparatively larger, and transmen's tend to be comparatively smaller.
All that being said, we still don't fully understand the brain yet, or how it all works to create individual personalities. We've barely scratched the surface.
How did you get that interpretation out of that statement?
@Robert what about your lie experience? you never see any actual life difference. men are doing the important stuff. eg, military, building and inventing. we havent seen any women doing much inventing since the last 4 decades women entered the workfield
Hank: "All those extra neurons gotta be doing something!"
Me: doubt.jpg
thanks for including the sources, a lot of your videos will be helpful for my psychology exams! :}
In a nutshell, males and females are more alike than they are different. But when most people think about how they're different, they think of the extreme outliers. There are plenty of women stronger than most men, but if you compare the strongest of men to the strongest of women, you'll see many more men. And this is what people think of when they compare differences. Not how most people are different, but how the most extreme of people are different.
"There are plenty of women stronger than most men" - it depends what you mean by "plenty."
Obviously on a planet of 7 billion people, there will be millions of women stronger than some men. But in terms of percentages, other than number of testes, strength is just about the worst trait you could have picked to demonstrate overlap between the sexes. There's much much less overlap than for height. A recent study measured hand grip strength and classified by hand, sex and age. For all age groups the male average was at least 50% stronger than the female average. The average for males over 70 was still higher than the average for females aged 20-29. Almost all men are stronger than almost all women. If you wish to demonstrate that humans are not really very sexually dimorphic, you need to pick a different trait.
Awesome video scishow psych team! Keep up the good work and great content!
Thanks for defining the parameters of the video so carefully, often these videos make generalisations without really going into the details!
"Size doesn't really matter."
I think we all know where I'm going with this.
It does , Men have larger brains so their brain cells are far from each other , and women's are close together , This lead me to conclusion why Women may be more stubborn
@@reta56 My guy, I think your brain cells are too far from each other.
What if certain brain processes make the male/female brain develop differently. Girls and boys grow and treated differently as well as put into roles that might change how their brain develops.
It's almost like everyone has there own unique DNA...
Juan D. M.
Your gibberish is very convincing. I am now certain your brain never completely formed.
Juan D. M.
Do you enjoy being pathetic? or is it just a consequence of the whole undeveloped brain thing?
Juan D. M.
*pat pat* Don't worry, we all can't be good at everything. You tried I guess
It's almost like everyone's DNA are 99.9% similar and biology has effects on psychology 🤔 who'd imagine that like every other animal humans have a psychological difference between sexes that even though it's just a slight one can make a difference on how we act... Hm beats me
@@joaogarcia6170 maybe you should actually listen to scientists instead of pretending your an expert for ones in your life. Social conditioning is not natural. And "evolutionary psychology" only exists to explain away what is already believed.
Take that, Lobster Man! 🦀
Gnorts Mr Alien Peterson?
This was so comprehensive and great. I love you guys.
Why are people so bitter in the comment section? Psychology and studies about nutritional biology are pretty similar in the way that each individual has their own differences, but generalizations can be made and more accurate conclusions can be drawn should we look into a person's individual characteristics more. It's just one variable isnt enough to draw conclusions about a person, but getting more of the puzzle pieces, the information, really help in analyzing a person.
Did they actually put "ish" in a scientific study...
This is a youtube video - not a scientific-study.
Alex Delarge I'm aware of the video, but Mr. Green was referring to a scientific study about brains.
Kyrah Glaze SciShow also once talked about a paper where it included the phrase "one ___ to rule them all". Obviously I forget what it was about.
Probably went something like the study said something like "it is however not apparent that..." -> scishow read that -> translated it to "ish"
Francesca Neibel-Spruill Definitely! Why say something so shallow and simple as "-ish" or "sort of," when you can say the same thing in ten or more words, and sound like you mean anything significant at all! Scientific writing is an art form that specializes in expansive, technical jargon that has been stripped of emotionality and imbued with the existential angst to sound "knowledgeable" above all else.
I think number of connections between neurons might be more important than size of the brain. So I think it might have more to do with synapses, which are actually a gap where neurotransmitters are released to and where they are received.
@ axons and dendrites don't require a lot of space.
New neurites or new connections between existing ones form when we learn something.
There is a saying: "neurons that fire together wire together"
This 'wiring together' of neurons might be more important to intelligence than large brain size.
Even if there were more neurons in a larger brain, which is not necessarily true, if they could not form connections, intelligence might be less in such a hypothetical larger brain.
@@originate2464 I heard that surface area is good estimate of intelligence as well.
@@logicalanonymous1639 I have heard that a possible reason the cortex has such a folded surface is to increase the surface area in a smaller space
@@originate2464 Yes, or you can call it gyrification.
Everyone is assuming that he's trying to avoid offending by giving vague answers, but has anyone considered that maybe the answer really is simply "We don't know."?
I'm not sure what your point is.
@@mike-0451 Isn't that assuming that he has a detaioes and specific answer in the first place?
“Hotly debated by scientists” is one of the sexiest things I’ve heard today.
So what I don't understand is, how can you say there are only minute differences that may or may not be there, then say we have a mix of "female and male brains." If there is no pattern when you account for relative size, how would you say one brain is more female and one is more male?
they found certain key things that females are more likely to have, and found key things that men are more likely to have. most people on average have a mix of these, so we have bi-gendered brains.
Mace Windu he..literally recapped what the video said. That used sources, shocker.
That's actually how almost all characteristics work regarding almost any attempt to form categories of things. It's a messy problem that is easier to just gloss over.
Basically, there are some traits where the mean is higher for males than females. So we assign a higher value to be more "male" and lower values to be more "female".
But that's just the mean value. If you made ranges around those means that captured 95% of all people, there would be substantial overlap in observed values in males and females. So there are plenty of females that have higher values than males on a trait even though we label high values on that trait as more masculine.
In fact, if the traits are not bound together by some underlying csusal link, it fairly quickly becomes unlikely that anyone will have all of their values in one trait correspond with the way that their sex indicates is more likely.
Brains are squidgy hehe 🧠
Random Weirdo What does squidgy mean?
[ Duwang_Mn ] same as squishy but more moist
lol
3:56 Damn. Dude rolled those R's like a champ!
Another conclusion is that extremes of sizes of certain areas (very thin or thick) can be attributed to one Gender with very high probability, at least according to the graphs at 4:10 . This is in accordance with many findings on extreme behaviors in some directions by females and males. Correlations might be interesting :)
The funny thing is I see a lot of “feminist comments incoming” in the comments section but no actual “feminist comments” well what would u know
Yeah, instead it's full of bigots. Funny.
Small-minded people rarely see the whole truth of things.
Instead, it's full of deluded morons who's heads are so far stuck up their own ass that all they can see is some mythical feminists that doesn't even exist. They have to make up their own enemy lol.
Maybe many feminists don't subscribe to this channel. Also, the original comment was basically a feminist comment.
I can't find any of those comments, just people preemptively talking about anti-feminist(?) comments.
Yes, males and females have brains next question
Bud, I think you misunderstood the question
@@lilyfox2981 Bud, I think it was a joke.
I really really hate to be this person but r/woooooosh
Awesome video, I have seen so much misleading content about this subject.
I hope you guys get more exposure.
I am curious as to whether which hand or side an organism favors has any effect on how strongly their eyesight may be on that particular side in comparison to their other side. For instance, does the right eye of a right handed person usually have a more severe deformation in the length of the eye (stronger myopia/hyperopia, or near-sightedness/far-sightedness)? And what other body structures or systems might the handedness of an organism affect, if that does actually have at least a somewhat significant effect on anything?
I don't think it ultimately matters. Besides, as you mentioned, I learned in the book "Come as you are" by Emily Nagoski (go read that right now!) that even though there are differences between males and females, there is even more variation between individual females (or males) than there is between females and males as groups. So, again, it only matters in relation to the context of the question... like if you use the differences to put a group above the other, in which case you suck as a person and are a bad scientist.
ojiverdeconfleco I think it matters a bit when you're looking for sexism. If we found out that without sexism, we'd expect 60% of engineers to be male but in reality it was closer to 80%, we'd know that something odd was happening. But if brain differences would lead to 80%, that would be important to know because otherwise, there would be something really suspicious going on at university admissions and employment. I think his research can help educate us in trying to find where sexism is and where it isn't.
ojiverdeconfleco This is rather idiotic. Small difference in the average produces huge difference in the extreme
You can even see in the graphs Hank shows that there's way more variation between members of the same gender than between men and women as groups.
Triggered?
The average person has half a penis and half a vagina. This is a statistically accurate statement.
Thanks for helping me better understand such a complex (and still developing) topic!
The patient's family gathered to hear what the specialists had to say.
"Things don't look good. The only chance is a brain transplant. This is an experimental procedure. It might work, but the bad news is that brains are very expensive, and you will have to pay the costs yourselves."
"Well, how much does a brain cost?" asked the relatives.
"For a male brain, $50,000, For a female brain, $2,000."
Some of the younger male relatives tried to look shocked, but the men nodded in understanding, and a few actually smirked.
Then the patient's daughter asked, "Why the difference in price between male brains and female brains?"
"Oh, that's just a standard practice," said the head of the team. "Used brains cost less."
Oh dear.
That took an unexpected turn^^
I like it!
I once heard one of my my female coworkers tell this joke at a staff meeting:
Why are men's brains so small? So they can fit into their penises.
To which I said, "So by that logic, women have no brains at all."
My boss (a woman) excused me from attending meetings for the rest of the year.
And this right here, is why we can never achieve true equality...
..That was rather cringe.
GAAAAA! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS! it will end (hopefully) a long-standing argument between me and my son.
The answer shouldn't be controversial. I'm a woman, and I already know there are differences between men and women. I know both men and women have different strengths and weaknesses, or I should say, strength and weaknesses from my point of view. Pretending there is no difference between men and women only limits our speech and progress. The only problem is when people apply these differences to try and take someone's rights away. Ex. Women have poorer spatial awareness, therefor they should not be allowed to drive... or men have poorer risk assessment, therefor they shouldn't be allowed to make decisions at work. We need to advance, while also remembering there are variations among both genders, and with encouragement and hard work we can both overcome any difference in potential and strive to be accomplished in all areas of life.
And of course, it's important to remember that these are all just generalizations. Individual results may vary.
Yep, you are correct. Biological/structural difference is small but, significant. Still it's not a basis for discrimination. Because person isn't just a bunch of statistics glued together to make average man/woman/snowflake...
Have you studied how much of ‘poorer male risk assessment ‘ is built into the society, ie men should be brave and straightforward and how much is inherent to male biology ? I have found a lot of things everybody knows have changed in my lifetime.
Francesco Nicoletti Unless you have a person born in complete isolation of society and culture than there’s not a true way to tell if the differences are caused by nurture rather than nature and that’s what this video saying.
Aneko Foxx I agree. I was reacting to the ‘I know ‘ what sex diffreces are, of the original poster. A totally obvious normal sex diffrence today, will become obsolete tomorrow with a change in society. The most easily provable change is math scores. As soon as girls were not discouraged from taking math their scores converge d with boys. Before then it was continually argued that women were genetically incapable of math. In this thread someone is arguing that no woman has won a certain computer game therefore genes, without doing one iota of investigation into that games subcultures..
In short you don’t know what you don’t know and stop assuming sex differences
*_"bigger bodies, bigger bodyparts"_* i see whatchu did there......dirty mind activated
This video was very informative, and it makes total sense, thanks a lot for it!
I have never seen Hank dance over so many eggshells.
I've always heard that surface area (i.e. Brain folds) matters rather than volume
SciShow you're all fantastic I feel like you explained the answer to this question very well! I'm sorry you have to deal with such a hellish comment section.
j they explained the issue but not anything we might have learned from its study
I thought women had more connections between the 2 hemispheres of the brain leading to a better grasp of emotional impact on logical thought & behaviour. If you ask a guy how he feels & he says “I don’t know”, it may be because he honestly can’t tell what he’s feeling
This statement is pretty biased,there are males who are good at discussing feelings and emotions and females who,on the contrary,come across as very blunt and unemotional,it really depends on the individual.
Appreciate you treading lightly here...
i can recommend the book "Testosterone rex" and "gender delusions" by Cordelia Fine! Really good scientific books debunking a lot of the myths we have about gender and so called "natural" differences.
Far left propaganda? There are differences between men and women and I really wish you dumbasses would just accept that. I'm not saying either of the 2 genders (yes, 2) are better than the other but acting like there aren't natural differences is stupid. Compare male humans to female humans and you will see the differences in how their brains function. Hell, compare a male animal to a female animal and you can clearly see they function differently.
I have two dogs, a female and a male. Their behaviours are pretty different cause of their hormones. My male dog is very aggressive to other male dogs, my female dog never fight with other dogs.. Then, the conclusion is that hormones really matter in males and females behaviour.
@@gem0.079 You can take the whole of the animal kingdom if you wanted to, this is the result you'll get most of the time, and as of now, there's no reason to think that we're any different.
you can tell he's walking on eggshells here
For real
I get what you're alluding to, but please remember that anyone, no matter what their thoughts are on politics or feminism or gender identity, can take words and twist them to fit their narrative. The careful wording could be "oooh dont want to piss off the trans community, dont want that kind of backlash" or it could be "people are going to manipulate what I say to justify their hate even if theres no evidence yet that either side is right"
He's trying not to offend.
That is not how science works.
He's trying to discourage people from jumping to conclusions without proof. *That's* how science works.
0mn1vore
That would imply he said anything at all. A literal tweet telling people to go Google this topic would have had the same result as the video.
Also, he considers a debunked research as legitimate as a much better executed research with 10 times more subjects. *THAT* is not how science works
@SciShowPsych You somehow managed to make this video as interesting as a plain milk carton.
Sometimes the truth (or at least what has been discovered by research) isn't sensational.
This guy knows how to avoid controversy
Ya coulda just said “Well yes but actually no” /s
Conclusion = difference is negligible...
Thank you!
Are there any studies on differences in brain chemistry?
Even the brains of two people in the same gender can be different. Like a female artist, and a female athlete
Also, women are more likely to report psychological symptoms and seek medical treatment for anything than men which is why the wellness industry markets predominantly to women. It isn't that women have more depression or anxiety, necessarily, it's that the practice of getting help is more acceptable for women.
Females are more likely to have depression VS males commit the most homicides. Why didn’t he mention this?? Interesting.....
Meaning females internalize our emotions, vs Males externalize their emotions.
@@loveself6396 I agree on a large scale, but I think research shows that has more to do with gender roles and expectations than cerebral structure. I really hope we can get more work done on brain imagery to better study things like that, though! It's a pertinent observation you made!
Chemically, sure. Behaviorally, it depends on the individual, since everyone is slated differently as far as behavior extents.
Wait why didnt I know this channel existed?
We have to consider that certain life conditions during your development affect the development of your brain areas, and there are a lot of conditions in which only women typically grow in and certain conditions that only men typically grow in because of society's gender roles and expectations. So the differences may not be because of the sexual cromossomes, but because of the experience pattern during your development and what your environment requested of you.
@@RoddyPipersCorneas No , You know what I think?
Environment, genes, personality, hormones, habits and mother tongue All determine your brain , Environment and nature are friends in our formation journey! Don't make them enemies
0:42 like being in the middle of a minefield but worse...
This is the longest disclaimer I've ever heard.
The short version- "we ain't touchin' this with a ten foot pole".
I have a question: can neuroplasticity help close whatever gaps there are between male and female brains?
If "gender" isn't synonymous with "biological sex" then please answer the following questions:
1. Sex Discrimination vs Gender Discrimination - what's the difference?
2. Gender Bias vs Sex Bias - what's the difference?
3. Sex Determination vs Gender Determination - what's the difference?
4. What's the word "gender" referring to in "Gender Pay Gap"?
Gender by definition is how one self-identifies, but the US still finds ways to twist that. Like state issued IDs have a "gender marker", which the government still thinks means sex.
@@Friend_of_Mara
_________ The process of saying "I 'identify' as a _________ . " is not gender. The 4 examples i gave are just normal every-day usages of the words, nothing about them is twisted into something they're not. Please explain what you have an issue with and why. 1 - 4.
Better yet, have your Gender Studies or Sociology "professors" try to explain them for you and watch them squirm in their chairs.
Maybe in an upcoming episode you guys can dig into fMRI analysis of biological male and female brains in action. My understanding is that there does seem to be, on average, mild variations in how the brains operate between the sexes.
That would be an extremely rough video that makes this one seem tame and politically neutral. You don't have to dig far to find results that even the scientists who found them flinch at.
I also don't want to have to see more suffering and confliction from the hosts at cognitive dissonance.
Why live unhappy when you only live once?
Yes but they don’t necessarily prove male and female brains. There have been studies that have shown that behaviour can change brain’s activity. And behaviours aren’t static.
The issue with this is mostly that brains aren't static, hormones influence mood which in turn influence brain activity, and that different gender-based socialization would also affect which regions of the brain are more developed/used more, so while you might be able to find certain similar trends between sexes, it would be hard to isolate their exact cause. The plasticity of the brain is fascinating, but it also makes attempting to categorize specific things quite difficult
How did these researchers define “male-ish” and “female-ish” brain characteristics? Did they use anatomical structures or size? Or did they define this factor by behavior and cognition?
I would be listening but I just can’t stop looking at the hair at the back of his head 😂
Hank's brain will always be bigger than ours
Yu Zhen unless you I use my shrink ray
this won't be controversial at all! nope, not one bit!
Jabberwocky Draco why should it be? All he’s saying is if you found a random brain you won’t be able to tell if it’s Male or female
They defuse it by drawing a distinction between biological sex and the feminist definition of gender.
Kazmir Runik
But they used the term "biosex" instead of "gender assigned," some people consider that transphobic.
Internet Hobo The idea that transgender-ism is real is basically a religion at this point, and some of the really zealous internet warriors will burn you at the stake for trying to have a fact-oriented discussion on the subject. To me, the whole thing screams of subconscious sexism because by "choosing" a gender you're essentially attributing a bunch of emotions and values to said gender - essentially sexism - rather than fighting the notion that people's chromosomes shouldn't dictate what they can and cannot be allowed to do.
Ropsana Khanom You probably would be able to make a reasonable guess based on its size, actually.
Apart from that, you're right, it would be very difficult if not impossible to distinguish between a male brain and a female brain that were overall the same size.
“We haven’t figured it out yet “
can you make a video about the athletic differences?
Honestly, I've always wondered what would happen if, at birth, you switched the brains of a boy and girl.
What would they be like?
Melon Collie a lot of what shapes our brains is input, experiences, what we learn, etc. it would depend when you switched the brains.
You made a trans person
@@fabianojeda3078 LMAO
@@fabianojeda3078 😂
@@fabianojeda3078 Possibly (in case you weren't ironic.)
It works in the sense that trans people have the brain structure of their gender, which is known fact now, but we can't know if forcing the brain structure of the opposite sex to a baby create enough deterministic inputs while evolving in an environment, to make them trans^^
LOL An excellent example of how "ideology" trumps actual "science" in today's academia. Although he is technically correct in the matters he mentioned, he completely avoided mentioning differences that occur with the different sex-steroid hormones that influence male and female cognition and the different neural pathways in the brain affected by each. For a more detailed understanding reference actual neurobiologic studies on thje matter.
Absolutely right
"Size doesn't matter" is what we've been saying. LOL
I wonder how much the differences in male/female diagnosis of conditions like Alzheimer's and depression comes from neurology and how much comes from sociological differences, like help-seeking social conditioning and tendencies of psychiatrists to formally diagnose one sex over the other.
I think hormones themselves have a much larger role in governing behavior than brain structure. Mood, thought, personality, literally everything about a person can change because of different balances of chemicals in the brain. I think that has a larger impact than physical structure. They're so powerful, in fact, that they even govern physical development! Our mind - hormone interaction is so remarkably (and fascinatingly) complicated. I just love this field of research!
If there's any data for this, please guide me in the direction to find it. People mock you for using the internet to do research these days, so I would like physical sources. Books and publications, etc.
I think it's destructive and toxic to use equality as a front to push a forced expectation of *sameness.*
We are not the *same* we are different and *that* is beautiful. We should celebrate our differences and use our strengths to bolster each other's weaknesses. Alas, that seems only possible in a fairy tale.
Helen Fischer hormone personality theory. It appears to be sound explanation for myers Briggs Personality typing in my opinion. Dr dario nardi told me about her. He is a psychologist and he has linked her analysis to myers Briggs.
Hormones causing 4 out of 8 personality traits.
Introvert/Extrovert
Intuitive/Sensor
Thinker/Feeler
Judger/Perceiver
Are linked to the hormones Testosterone, Estrogen, Oxytocin, Dopamine, and Serotonin
I didn't realize female lab mice go into heat every 4-6 days.
Jynx C. Well, it depends on the mice. My good friend does medical research, and she’s spent two years breeding a very specific genetic line of mice. To get the genes she needs in the offspring, she has to breed specific mice with each other.
Sometimes a female and a male will sit together for two weeks without doing anything, due to lack of interest in each other. It’s quite frustrating, because after a certain age the quality of the offspring declines, so there’s a pressure to get as many good litters as possible.
And also, she told me that just like in humans, mouse fertility varies. Not every female mouse has a high enough fertility to get pregnant every week.
Every week or two I see this friend, and ask how her mice are breeding. She’s usually stressed about them not breeding, tbh, but ofc it would be easier if they didn’t care about genetic lines and could put fifty mice in a big breeding free for all play ground :)
Since the size distributions of each characteristic overlap and the jaggedness principle argues that no individual is completely average in all measures (so long as the number of measured characteristics is numerous enough) then you could never say whether a given invdividual's brain is female or male (even if you knew that they weren't intersex). Therefore, a given study could result in completely different overall results when averaging all their measurements together by simply including or omitting certain measurements (even if they used the exact same group of people).
In short, it’s extremely complicated, and highly debated if men and women are born with different brains.
From what I've heard, the number of neurones doesn't really result in any increase in intelligence or anything like that - we are born with not a huge amount off the number of neurones we'll have as a full grown adult - the difference is in myelineation, basically how we form pathways representing skills or whatever. Myelin is an insulator which is white in colour (hence, white matter) and say we are learning to ride a bike, as we practice, the sequence of processes in the brain becomes more familiar, transforming the grey matter in the area to white and increasing our aptitude at cycling through practice.
Anyway, the relevance of this being that I've heard that at birth there is no difference, however there ARE differences in fully grown adult males or females. The issue being whether you believe institutional gender oppression exists, as, as I just explained, the structure of the brain is essentially altered by what skills you practice, and if you are a woman in a society where sexism exists, your brain might then look different, right? It'd be super interesting to see a study comparing male and female brains between patriarchal and matriarchal societies to see the difference, if there is any.
"Outdated stereotypes, like the idea that males are better at math, aren't one of them."
This is literally true though
Women are more empathic than men
Women produce 4 times more oxytocin than men
Men can't bond through sex, but women can
Women value long-term relationships
Men value casual sex over LTR
Men are incapable of making strongs
bonds with their partners or offspring
@jael This argument ignores one very big point, is that society had to actually develop. At one point in our history, society wasn't really a thing, according to your argument, how did men and women who at one point did not have gender roles eventually get them if you suppose they just did what they always did? I'd say that the answer is still, deeply rooted in biology. We are society after all, men are more powerful, but also more expendable, so they hunt, and because of this, developed spacial skills better than their female counterparts, and because they took more risk, they often had to consider and calculate to not get themselfs killed. Women on the other hand are very valuable in an ancient world, and are soft and weaker, so they stayed at home to do less risky things, and had more time to socialize and make connections, through out history, women often dominated courts, this might explain it. Overall, this is just a theory, we don't know if it's true or not.😅
@jael You did not understand my point, I did not make the connection between hunting and being better at math, I said that because men had more uses for math in their daily life they developed better math skills to live their life better, like merchants, did you know that around 15% of them died at sea? Almost all of them were male, traders, they traveled across continents and as a result got injured very often, even most accountants back in the day were male because all the women were busy in their courts, do you get it now? It's an evolutionary trait, not some social treatment.
There is no discrimination in any math course or STEM field right now, if a woman wants to and have the capability she can get a degree and that field, infact women actually have special treatment when it comes to acceptance because the schools want to get rid of their 'sexism' (By BEING SEXIST), guess what, no women are showing up still. But there are actually more women than men in Biology fields, a decent amount in medical fields,... You should know why.
@jael You use a STEM degree to get a job, not to do the job, they don't promote any kind of gender role, they're just a male dominated space, that's it, if the women don't like being near men they can choose other fields but if they want to pursue STEM there's nothing to suggest that they're just inherently sexist towards women.
Because societies must develop for gender roles to become 'socially acceptable', you see? They must start from somewhere, we as humans didn't always lived in societies, but rather in small groups of familiars, they know nothing of what we know today, yet they still accepted some things we don't even know is true or not. Even in matriachal societies, the men still did the scientific work, it's just that the women had control of diplomatic relations and internal policies, like the Confederation of Iroquois, this is a pattern we've seen across history, the difference between matriarchal and patriarchal societies is the ones in power, not gender roles, women are still caretakers and mothers, men are still miners, soldiers, hunters, and researchers in matriarachal societies.
The reason for gender roles might be biology, or it might just be something else we haven't thought of yet, we don't know, but it is definitely not social, we're not advanced enough to tell the difference between male and female brains yet, but we are advanced enough to ask a simple 'Why?' to the question of gender roles, to which the people supporting them have no answer, which is why we decided that it is not true, there's a flaw in their logic.
The believe that gender roles only became what they are because of society is false, even if we don't really know what caused them but to say that women only became care takers because society enforced that idea is not only stupid, it also doesn't take into account the opinions of women who actually wanted to do such jobs, which there are alot of, even for animals. Men and women have entirely different beliefs, they may be equal, but they are not the same, even from birth.
@jael I'm not making stuff up, just look it up, in every field the percentage of women accepted to rejected compared to men is always higher, that is just fact, some schools don't even want to show this percentage because it might seem sexist.
And as for black people, it is because of their circumstance, black people are poor because their parents weren't rich either, if you start later in a race it is not a surprise that you end up losing, that is their situation, and that leads to worse performance in school. Asian parents are very education minded, and you may not know it but only the best of Asians ever leave their country, abroad Asians always do better than their counterparts in the home country, it's that simple.
Who is the best cook in the world? Many would say Gordon Ramsey, and I can see why. Men were not discouraged by society not to cook, they just didn't have time for it, and believe it or not single men cook for themselves, the fact that Ramsey is the best chef has more to do with his perfectionism and hard work than being of a certain gender, but on average, men **are** worse cooks, why? Because of natural selection. Men who are good cooks didn't always reproduce, being a cook is a lowly job, and that comes with being poor, only the best of cooks ever got to live comfortably, meanwhile women who can cook are almost always already married in ancient societies. There's alot in cooking, but some people just had better characteristics for it than other people, and if they are actively desired, they get to pass on their genes, you might not know this, but most of us humans have almost completely identical DNA, it is only a tiny fraction that define who we are in society, and in that, daughters are more likely to adopt more of the mother's gene than the father's, likewise, the opposite is true, and if men who aren't good at cooking are the boy's father which is more than likely, they will likely be worse than their sisters at cooking. Ancient cooking was literally hanging food on a stick on top of a fire, modern cooking as we know it only started around 3000 years ago.
I once heard that the size of the brain doesn’t matter but what matters is the brain to body ration and both males and females have the same ration (on average)
You can tell with naked eye, you only need to look for corpus callosus
Psychology 101 : Well yes but actually no
You can tell how hard he’s trying to not offend anyone haha
2:55 well, larger brain volume doesn't automatically imply extra neurons
Why are we going on and on about size of the brain structures? I want to know about the differences in functionality.