This is especially important when addressing less statistically savvy audiences. Such audiences could perhaps be encouraged to think of two normal distributions, one representing males and the other females. Instead of imagining that natural selection creates two distinct psychological types — a male type and a female type, described by the mean values for each group — they could be encouraged to imagine that natural selection pushes the male and female distributions closer together or further apart. This simple expedient may help people to visualize the effects of natural selection on average sex differences without at the same time losing sight of the variation within each sex.


(p. 268) - The Ape that Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2013)

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This is especially important when addressing less statistically savvy audiences. Such audiences could perhaps be encouraged to think of two normal...

This is especially important when addressing less statistically savvy audiences. Such audiences could perhaps be encouraged to think of two normal...

This is especially important when addressing less statistically savvy audiences. Such audiences could perhaps be encouraged to think of two normal...

This is especially important when addressing less statistically savvy audiences. Such audiences could perhaps be encouraged to think of two normal...