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Posted by theanonymousone 17 hours ago

Newborn girls and boys show different attention patterns within hours of birth(medicalxpress.com)
15 points | 7 comments
MarkusWandel 16 hours ago|
Only a quick skim, and - hey I'm in Canada, so I can still talk about gender issues, right? What about "born into the wrong body" types? Who always felt they belong in the other gender and eventually transition? I guess it would be hard to test at scale, but would they at birth already exhibit the "other gender" behaviour patterns?
erentz 5 hours ago||
The differences observed are at the population level. That means there is HUGE overlap between the two populations and you can’t distinguish any data point as being a girl or a boy. Only that the populations have a different average or range. For a visual representation check out [1].

This kind of thing shows up all over the place in all fields of research. It’s why for example although you can see immune system differences at a population level between patients with disease X and healthy controls, you can’t in any way use it as a biomarker for an individual who might have disease X.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13293-026-00976-9...

nsvd2 16 hours ago||
This would be incredibly hard to test because you'd have to have the results of the study and then wait a few decades to see who ends up identifying as transgender. Also the amount of transgender people is a small fraction of the population so you'd need a larger total sample size for the same statistical significance.

My experience interacting with transgender people is that transgender men and cisgender women have a lot of things in common and visa versa, so I would expect this to follow that pattern, but it would be interesting to see it studied.

BoxwoodSeed 17 hours ago||
Quite obviously? Male and females are differently wired, so to speak. A Norwegian comedian did an entire documentary about it back in 2010 [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWHTKnB0jqZD9cR0zMpNL...

stronglikedan 16 hours ago|
You'd think it would be obvious, but we're in a post-truth society at the moment, so it just depends on who you ask.
Avshalom 15 hours ago||
Method here is a little iffy I gotta say. They had people just watch video and judge which direction the baby was looking, then average the closest two.

also the total difference is like a second and a half out of 70.

also also a parent had to hold the child which introduces a mechanism of biasing.

HelloUsername 16 hours ago|
Sorry. What?