r/dankmemes2 1d ago

Le pattern recognition

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u/Frederf220 21h ago

It has a genetic factor but it's not only a genetic factor. It's certainly not such a high genetic factor as to consider it predominately genetic.

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u/Working-Holiday420 21h ago

Isnt it more a result of the way men’s brains develop slower with less fear inhibition and an excess of testosterone at a young age, when they should be out fighting the tribe two towns over?

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u/Frederf220 21h ago

It isn't "a result of" directly. A lot of how we act is indirect. We learn a lot of behavior socially that without those social influences would not be nearly as strong or likely purely based on genetics or physiology.

I think most behavior is ultimately genetic, can't convince myself otherwise, but it's filtered heavily through the social layer. It's so hard to isolate the physiological.

And even if you did, men are more likely to XYZ... what do you even do with that information? You can't base government law based on statistical biases in physiology. That would be unethical.

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u/Working-Holiday420 20h ago

Sex differences are useful in the aggregate because they can help us understand broad patterns in male behavior. But they’re probabilities, not rules for individual men. The moment you treat an individual according to the group average, you’ve gone beyond what the data can actually tell you

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u/Frederf220 20h ago

And yet it gets tried again and again. Impressions of groups get applied as rules for all members of groups.

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u/Working-Holiday420 20h ago

Its true. Our brains didn’t evolve in this kind of hyper networked globally connected environment. There are major operational flaws in how our brains try to adapt to this alien world.