Up voted, however this is pointing out the obvious.
I think the real awkwardness is that people assume that a sex difference would exist even if the experiment was repeated in say Sweden. Sure there is still a cultural factor even there but I think most people here have a hunch a small tendency in this direction would exist in any culture even if it was masked by other factors.
I’ll go out on a limb and say that perhaps women are more conscious of what other people think of them than men. Thus they tend to conform in behaviour to expectations a bit more.
To back this (in my opinion small effect) I won’t got into any evo psych “just because” explanation but will stick to the empirically measurable different proportions of people who are non-neurotypical among the sexes.
Up voted, however this is pointing out the obvious.
I think the real awkwardness is that people assume that a sex difference would exist even if the experiment was repeated in say Sweden. Sure there is still a cultural factor even there but I think most people here have a hunch a small tendency in this direction would exist in any culture even if it was masked by other factors.
I’ll go out on a limb and say that perhaps women are more conscious of what other people think of them than men. Thus they tend to conform in behaviour to expectations a bit more.
To back this (in my opinion small effect) I won’t got into any evo psych “just because” explanation but will stick to the empirically measurable different proportions of people who are non-neurotypical among the sexes.