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Nurture affects gender differences in spatial abilities

机译：养育影响空间能力的性别差异

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Women remain significantly underrepresented in the science, engineering, and technology workforce. Some have argued that spatial ability differences, which represent the most persistent gender differences in the cognitive literature, are partly responsible for this gap. The underlying forces at work shaping the observed spatial ability differences revolve naturally around the relative roles of nature and nurture. Although these forces remain among the most hotly debated in all of the sciences, the evidence for nurture is tenuous, because it is difficult to compare gender differences among biologically similar groups with distinct nurture. In this study, we use a large-scale incentivized experiment with nearly 1,300 participants to show that the gender gap in spatial abilities, measured by time to solve a puzzle, disappears when we move from a patrilineal society to an adjoining matrilineal society. We also show that about one-third of the effect can be explained by differences in education. Given that none of our participants have experience with puzzle solving and that villagers from both societies have the same means of subsistence and shared genetic background, we argue that these results show the role of nurture in the gender gap in cognitive abilities.
机译：妇女在科学，工程和技术劳动力中的比例仍然很低。一些人认为，空间能力差异是认知文献中最持久的性别差异，部分原因是造成这一差距的原因。形成观察到的空间能力差异的潜在工作力量自然围绕着自然与养育的相对作用而旋转。尽管这些力量仍然是所有科学界争论最激烈的力量之一，但对于养育的证据却是微不足道的，因为很难比较具有独特养分的生物学相似群体之间的性别差异。在这项研究中，我们使用了将近1,300名参与者的大规模激励性实验，结果表明，当我们从父系社会转向毗邻的母系社会时，按时间衡量的空间能力上的性别差距将消失。我们还表明，大约三分之一的影响可以通过教育差异来解释。鉴于我们的参与者都没有解决难题的经验，并且来自两个社会的村民具有相同的生存方式和共有的遗传背景，因此我们认为这些结果表明了培养在认知能力中性别差距中的作用。

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