Article contents
Arithmetic and old lace
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
Abstract
Geary's project faces the severe methodological difficulty of tracing the biological effects of gender on mathematical ability in a system that is massively open. Two methodological stratagems he uses are considered. The first is that pancultural sex differences are biological in nature, which is dubious in the domain of mathematics, since it is completely culture-bound. The second is that sociosexual differences are partly caused by biosexual differences, which renders his thesis unfalsifiable and empirically empty.
- Type
- Open Peer Commentary
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996
References
- 2
- Cited by