Newborn girls and boys show different attention patterns within hours of birth
theanonymousone
13 points
7 comments
September 22, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
BoxwoodSeed
Quite obviously? Male and females are differently wired, so to speak. A Norwegian comedian did an entire documentary about it back in 2010 [1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWHTKnB0jqZD9cR0zMpNL...
MarkusWandel
Only a quick skim, and - hey I'm in Canada, so I can still talk about gender issues, right? What about "born into the wrong body" types? Who always felt they belong in the other gender and eventually transition? I guess it would be hard to test at scale, but would they at birth already exhibit the "other gender" behaviour patterns?
HelloUsername
Sorry. What?
Avshalom
Method here is a little iffy I gotta say. They had people just watch video and judge which direction the baby was looking, then average the closest two. also the total difference is like a second and a half out of 70. also also a parent had to hold the child which introduces a mechanism of biasing.