/sci/ - Science & Math

Children can recognize faces by six months. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say there would be different results if you had female experimenters ask children to play with toys, or even people that do and don't look like their parents. One can easily argue these results support a psychological theory, because male and femaleness do differ across cultures. If you're not using exactly the same toys in every experiment that's a huge methodological flaw, and while you could use something like a sword and parent-dolls to reduce that, there's still cultural issues. ultimately this study, like nearly every meta-study, and even basic studies, doesn't tell us anything we can actually use.