Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Debunking the single-sex ed cranks/reply (2)

It's based on a combination of extravagant overgeneralizations and misinterpretations of psych studies mixed with "learning styles" woo. A good place to follow the adventures of these cranks is at Mark Liberman's "language and gender" postings on Language Log. In fact, I just finished reading Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender, which is a good book on this, though some of the stuff she dismantles is a bit old hat (to me at least). Much of the Mars/Venus bunk peddled in the popular media wouldn't pass a neuroscience 101 course.