Do both sex's think the same?

I know its a dumb question but I want a scientific answer.


"Does the Female and Male gender think equivalently based on thought processes?" Or does one gender act more on incentive/instinct/hormones?

Or are thoughts just cased emotions?

Please, serious answers only. Anything non-sensable will be flagged and ignored. Attempts at a legitimate answer will be regarded as scientific.

And yes, I understand everyone is the same. But on a theoretical level, are we the same?

 

Do you? Males and females have different anatomy and physiology, it makes sense that they don't think the same. And even two males aren't "the same", every single human in the history of humans has been different from the rest.

 

after sieving through research about male and female entrepreneurs

evidence suggests overwhelmingly

that women are more emotional in their thinking

whilst men are more logical.

they looked at the types of trade

employee relations

and a persons nAch (need for achievement) etc. to discover this.

results indicated

that women are team builders - often run personal services

and are less likely to sell others down the river for personal gain subsequently.

i'd suggest we do think differently.

 

I doubt that any two people think exactly the same on a variety of topics. However, the hormones that make us male or female probably affect our thoughts to some degree.

For instance, I remember hearing about a transvestite who was male and became female who commented, "things that used to roll off my back as male, irritated me when I became female." She also said she didn't like not having pant pockets to put stuff in.

 

Roughly the same, yes.

 

Nope......Total Opposites......Have Been Since Adam And Eve......And Always

Will Be....



Cheers Glen.

 

If you want the scientific angle, I'd go with three main areas

1. Back Propagating Neural Nets - The kind of computer the brain is. Pretty much everything learned from memory. Lots and lots research nowadays suggesting the foundations for everything happen in those earlychildhood years. Especially Gender. And the brain does a lot of its work under the hood as it were without us even realising

2. Charles Darwin - Our environment shapes us not the other way around, and our environment includes everyone else

3. The mathematics of it all - The 'same', the same as what. There is always going to be that 1% furthest away from average down one end and the other 1% furthest away from average down the other end.....but at the same time, with 7 billion of us not that much variation, each 1% represents 70 million roughly the same. So a certain amount of predictability in all of us




So put the three together and question is kind of mute because you are trying to simplify it down to just two categories. Of course there is always going to be that percentage that thinks more like the opposite sex than everyone else, including most of the opposite sex...simply because there is variation (3), everyone else knows this due to previous learned experience (1) and they are going treat you as that variation anyway no matter what you do (2)

 

"…I do not think that I owe much to him intellectually-nor to my four sisters…I am inclined to agree with Francis Galton in believing that education and environment produce only a small effect on the mind of any one, and that most of our qualities are innate (Darwin, quoted in Barlow, 1958 p. 43)."

darwin believed in the nature argument

not the nurture.

 

There are biological differences (including differences in innate power and ability) between men and women which transcend the reproductive region of our bodies. The fact that there are exceptions does not invalidate the pattern.

To treat both genders as the same is moronic, as we have seen from the failed feminist experiment, which, one day might arouse as much laughter as communism does today.

It seems to me, women by-and-large reject equality at every turn.

 

M..i was reading something lately on that kind of subject...sort of...all right its after sex...

A guy's mind releases dopamine (if i am not wrong), this makes him to want to repeat the process due to the pleasurable sensation, also its release to the boddy brings a sleeping sensation (this is why men are tired and want to sleep after sex)...

woman's brain releases dopamine but also another element (with a very strange name that i can not recall). Its more known though as the subtance of cuddles (or hug), it creates the sensation of empathy and that's why females are bonding with a man through sex but also need to be cuddled.

What i learned reading the above it was that after all, no its not your imagination, there is an explanation for everything...

 

I agree, but it might be more accurate to say that men are more gifted with linear thought (such as geometric proofs) and women more gifted with intuitive thought (such as probability theory). This is a tendency only of course, both men and women are capable of both types of reasoning.

Men tend to have better spatial skills, however, when they get lost, men are more likely to keep driving in the hope that they will eventually find their way without the women in the car noticing his mistake. Women will simply stop, get directions and consequently arrive at their destination sooner than a man.
GPS can equalize the sexes in travel skills, so perhaps no longer an issue.

The right and left hemispheres in a woman's brain are better connected than in a man. Men are consequently more likely to think exclusively in right-brain or left-brain mode. Women tend to keep both modes working at once. Example: an angry man may need to walk away from an argument to "go fishing", "play golf" while his emotional side calms down and he can then process the argument and hopefully reconcile. Women often far exceed men in verbal skills and typically don't need extra time to process a disagreement. Too often they don't understand that when a man takes time out, assuming "end of discussion" when it isn't the case at all.
However, I dated a woman who needed lots of time to de-stress before she could open up and tell me about her week. I learned to wait until she was ready and did not take it as a personal snub.

However, because of the stronger left-right brain bridge, women may be more easily distracted in love-making than men. When a man gets in "love-making mode", he can typically tune out the outside world and focus on the lovemaking. This too is just a general tendency, not destiny.

 

Sounds like oxytocin.

There has been studies refuting the 'better connection' between hempispheres of the brain in women than men but I'd be interested in some linked studies in regards to that.

As far as the arguing thing goes, I'd agree that woman probably have more verbal skills to say 'stuff' but I'd agree with Imaginary Being that they are emotionally driven rather than logical. So like in arguments women tend to go off on tangents, and I think often when a man wants to walk away from an argument, it's not because he's at a loss for words and needs to process it necessarily, it's that the argument is nowhere near where the argument topic started.

“Men, don’t argue–you cannot win. You cannot beat a woman in an argument–it’s impossible. You will not win. Because men, we are handicapped when it comes to arguing, because we have a need to make sense. Women aren’t going to let a little thing like sense screw-up their argument.”–Chris Rock

 

oxytocin, which is also released during child birth.

This chemical certainly suggests that our brains are wired differently.

 

All I can offer you is to invite you to take a look at some CAT scans to compare the diameter of the connection between the hemispheres of men and women.

Debating is a skill that can be learned. Are women not given this training in school? Perhaps they are socialized not to take classes that teach these skills.

I remember a British comedian's short monologue:
"My wife woke me up in the middle of the night demanding an apology.
I said, "Good Lord, woman! What on Earth for?"
She said "I dreamt that you said something rude to me".
I replied, "But I didn't say it, it was just a dream!".
She said, "It doesn't matter!".

 

No. No. No. Men and women have totally different thought/emotional processes.

Basically, what everyone in here said is completely accurate about emotions and logic and whatnot.

Although, I do think a lot of it has to do with overall personality, I do think the genders are much different when it comes to how we process thoughts.

 

You can't have a blanket statement for all men and all women.....

HOWEVER....

We have been socialized going back to the days of the caveman to perform different roles and behave in certain ways. Men are expected to be strong emotionally while women are expected to be weak. Women are supposed to be nurturing, while men are supposed to be providers. We are taught these roles from a very young age. So yes, men and women do think differently. But a lot of it has more to do with how we are socialized rather than biological differences.

 

well no.

they were deliberating empirically

the emotional aspect of male and female decision making

when regarding entrepreneurism at least.

so it wouldn't be more accurate to say that

as it wouldn't cooperate with their hypothesis.

anyways

both sets of terms are hardly apples and oranges.

 

:frown:

 

I'm not sure what you mean there TIB.

 

it makes sense.