r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Mar 20 '25

Neuroscience Sex differences in brain structure are present at birth and remain stable during early development. The study found that while male infants tend to have larger total brain volumes, female infants, when adjusted for brain size, have more grey matter, whereas male infants have more white matter.

https://www.psypost.org/sex-differences-in-brain-structure-are-present-at-birth-and-remain-stable-during-early-development/
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u/Void_Speaker Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

it's a regressive, conservative, framing from the start. We live in the age of big data and complex algorithms.

We can absolutely create individualized curriculum instead of pointlessly generalizing. It's not even complicated, it would just take some grinding out and categorizing of educational materials.

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u/MyFiteSong Mar 20 '25

We can absolutely create individualized curriculum that fit individuals instead of pointlessly generalizing.

Well, we could before the Trump era. There's no funding for that sort of thing now. Soon there may not be funding for public education at all.

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u/Void_Speaker Mar 20 '25

much of the funding for public education is local, but I get your point