Published: April 21, 2014, 3 a.m.
A British tabloid article about kids, brains, and spatial skills somehow provokes the biggest argument ever on the podcast. Dave and Tamler get into it about gender, toys, properly rounded brains, and balanced "play diets." Is Dave a sanctimonious toe-the-line academic liberal?\xa0 Is Tamler a Fox-News watching, mysoginist genetic determinist? Do they actually disagree about anything?\xa0
Plus Dave takes Tamler back after his fling with Partially Examined Life,\xa0 and we discuss whether the new documentary\xa0The Unbelievers the atheist version of God is Not Dead?
Links
- The Partially Examined Life podcast, and Tamler's Precognition of Ep. 93.\xa0[partiallyexaminedlife.com]
- Girls and boys DO have different brains \u2013 should they have different toys?\xa0by Rachel Carlyle\xa0[express.co.uk]
- The Unbelievers\xa0[unbelieversmovie.com]
- My Growing Disappointment with the New Atheist Movement: A Review of the The UnBelievers.\xa0 Ami Palmer.\xa0 [missiontotransition.blogspot.com]
- Nosek, B. A., Banaji, M. R., & Greenwald, A. G. (2002). Math= male, me= female, therefore math\u2260 me. Journal of personality and social psychology, 83, 44. [briannosek.com]
- Cvencek, D., Meltzoff, A. N., & Greenwald, A. G. (2011). Math\u2013gender stereotypes in elementary school children. Child development, 82, 766-779. [washington.edu]
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