BG48234

Dr.Simon Baron-Coheh Dr. Richard Lippa Dr. John Manning Prof. David Perrett Dr. Stian Reimers
 * 48234**
 * Brain Gender Assessment**
 * Part 1**

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 * Part 2**

I do agree with most of what this assessment is claiming to be true about myself.I was surprised to see that in the 3D shapes section I scored in the range where Engineers and those with Science backgrounds do. I don’t agree with the belief that just because you are male or female you answer the questions to this assessment solely because of your gender. I believe each of us are individuals and that whether or not we can move shapes around in our mind has nothing to do with our physical gender. I believe we answer these questions not only because of our individual beliefs, but that those beliefs may in some way may have been affected by the way we were raised. The way that the scores often overlapped each other was another draw back to validity for me. If men and women think so differently how is it possible for our scores to be so close that at times they are even identical. If this assessment were given to individuals raised in gender neutral homes in a gender neutral world then and only then would I believe that this gender assessment could tell me if I were male or female.
 * Part 3**

I agree that you can not predict the gender of someone based solely on the way they perform on a test. The answers they give on a test don’t vary only because they are male or female.There are many other factors that play a role in someone choosing a particular answer. Maybe in the future there will be a way to develop an assessment to distinguish the gender of an individual, but thus far it has not been done without any criticism.
 * Part 4**

The error type that sticks out the most for me is the one proposed by Cahill as “overlapping distributions” due to Stereotypes. This is basically stating that when male and female scores overlap there needs to be another way to compute and factor that in to the averages of those within the same gender.To actually be able to label one by their answers.
 * Part 5**