The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120

Jul 6, 2026 · 2h 34m · YouTube

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0:00Do you think that you could have published this book six years ago?

0:03I think that I could have, but it would have been a less wise move.

0:06I think it would have gone down a lot worse six years ago.

0:10Things have kind of cooled off a little bit, I think.

0:13Why is talking about sex differences so controversial?

0:16Well, it's a good question, and I think that it's a few things.

0:19I mean, sometimes it surprises me, because sometimes I think a lot of the differences that we're talking about, they're really quite modest differences.

0:26They are often differences in preferences rather than cognitive abilities.

0:30So they're kind of neutral as far as I'm concerned.

0:33And if anything, I think probably they put men in a worse light than women.

0:37So sometimes it surprises me.

0:39But I think really the main reason is a long history of sexism against women.

0:45And I think that we've got quite a long, science as well, has a bit of a sorted history in terms of how we've spoken about women, especially in the 1800s.

0:54I've got a quote, one of my favorite quotes, one of my favorite examples of this is from a scientist by the name of Gustave Le Bon.

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