10.6084/m9.figshare.1321277.v1 Cordelia Fine Cordelia Fine Daphna Joel Daphna Joel Rebecca Jordan-Young Rebecca Jordan-Young Anelis Kaiser Anelis Kaiser Gina Rippon Gina Rippon Why Males ≠ Corvettes, Females ≠ Volvos, and Scientific Criticism ≠ Ideology: A Response to “Equal ≠ The Same: Sex Differences in the Human Brain” figshare 2015 gender differences Behavioral Neuroscience 2015-03-03 14:27:36 Journal contribution https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Why_Males_Corvettes_Females_Volvos_and_Scientific_Criticism_Ideology_A_Response_to_Equal_The_Same_Sex_Differences_in_the_Human_Brain_/1321277 <p>In the recent Cerebrum article Equal ≠ the same: Sex differences in the human brain, Larry Cahill offers his perspective on the nature of sex differences in brain and behavior, and what he considers to be a “counter-reaction” to such research by “anti-sex difference” investigators operating from the “deeply ingrained, implicit, false assumption that if men and women are equal, then men and women must be the same.”[1] We welcome this opportunity to correct some of the misapprehensions and mischaracterisations in this account, and present a more nuanced view of the relations among sex, brain and gender.</p>