{"id":2287,"date":"2003-04-21T12:58:59","date_gmt":"2003-04-21T15:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=410"},"modified":"2010-05-09T00:07:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T03:07:52","slug":"how-male-or-female-is-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/04\/21\/how-male-or-female-is-your-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"How male or female is your brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back from the holidays, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codepoetry.net\/archives\/000799.php#meta\">codepoetry<\/a>&#8216;s reference to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/life\/feature\/story\/0,13026,937913,00.html\">Guardian&#8217;s article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How male or female is your brain?<\/p>\n<p>The following tests were developed by Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>His theory is that the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy, and that the male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems. He calls it the empathising-systemising (E-S) theory&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I took the tests, with the following results:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/EQ.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/SQ.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No surprise there&#8230; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_wink.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back from the holidays, I found codepoetry&#8216;s reference to the Guardian&#8217;s article: How male or female is your brain? The following tests were developed by Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. His theory is that the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy, and that the male brain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tests"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-AT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}