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.
That explains at least part of the sex difference right there. Japanese cultural attitudes about assertive women are justifiably notorious.
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.