Women's Brain

1. What is the general point that Gould is presenting?
Gould’s point is that is presenting that most anthropologists that were male in that time period said that the female brain was smaller thus concluding in the utmost prejudice way that to a full grown adult male they’re were children.

2. What is the general evidence on which that conclusion is based?
Studies that were conducted were on the skull’s size, height, and weight

3. What is the gender of all the researchers producing those data and conclusions?
All were men except for one whose name was Maria Montessori.

4. What weaknesses or problems with those data and their interpretation does Gould point out?
The flawed research Gould pointed out was that Broca’s research was on females that were significantly older and smaller than males with heavy body sets and greater height.

5. a) Name the one woman anthropologist mentioned who studied the subject of this essay. b) What did she find after proper correction of Broca's data? c) What were her conclusions from that finding?
a)Maria Montessori b) That actually females had bigger brains and some are actually more intelligent c) Women from her research actually were more intelligent than men.

6. What conclusion does Gould reach about the central issue?
He concludes with how men have lead only by saying women are less superior and punishing them for actually being intelligent. He says the era of women is coming.

7. Make a general statement about the role of bias and assumptions in the collecting, processing, and interpretation of data in scientific studies.
All people have bias in any situation and that can ultimately affect the outcome of anything.

8. What other kinds of bias can you think of that might influence observations and interpretations in science?
Race, Religion, and Social Class

9. Describe your initial feelings (about the subject, the author, etc.) after reading the first 4 pages.
I’ve respected women all of my life and just reading about this makes me disgusted with the people. The author should at least make the endeavour to say that men and women are equal in most but not all things

10. Describe your feeling after finishing the entire article
I was confused although this article had a lot of information about the anthropologists he didn’t really make the effort on what his point of view was and how he felt about the information.