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[–]GConly 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

We'll, I have three here. So this obviously isn't coming from a single team.

Brain Differences Between Men and Women: Evidence From Deep Learning

The proposed 3D CNN yielded a better classification result (93.3%)

Patterns in the human brain mosaic discriminate males from females

Classification accuracy was extremely high [accuracy: 93%, 95% confidence interval (CI) 89.5–94.9%, P < 10−16] and remained significant if head-size-related measurements were excluded [92% (CI 88.9–94.5%), P < 10−16] or regressed out [70% (CI 65.0–74.2%), P < 10−6]. To borrow the framing of Joel et al

Gender Differences Are Encoded Differently in the Structure and Function of the Human Brain Revealed by Multimodal MRI

The multivariate pattern analyses revealed that each of these measures had discriminative power to successfully distinguish between genders (classification accuracy: 94.3%, 90.73%, and 83.89% for GMV, ReHo, and FC, respectively) and their combination further improved the classification performance (96.6%).

Also Savic and Burke's and Ramettis work all accept that you can tell a brains sex, so it seems to be a pretty widely held opinion among neurobiologists.

More work showing brain sex is detectable.

Sex Differences in the Adult Human Brain: Evidence from 5216 UK Biobank Participants

[–]latuspodSuper Straight 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This all makes perfect sense if you actually think about it. Women and men are different obviously, different interests, different personality traits on average. Of course there are going to be differences in the brain. But if you look at the brain as a whole there will actually be a huge amount of overlap and little difference as well, we are the same species afterall. If you try to say there is no difference between man's brain or a woman's you are like half a step from saying there is no such thing as a woman or a man.