The post where its argued that men and women have identical bodies

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Suppose I wanted to convince you that men and women had physically identical bodies. I run studies on things like number of arms, number of kidneys, size of the pancreas, caliber of the aorta, whethr the brain is in the head or the chest, et cetera. 90% of these come back positive – in fact, the only ones that don’t are the ones like “breast size” or “number of penises”. I conclude that men and women are mostly physically similar. I can even make a statistic like “men and women are physically identical in 78% of traits”.

Just kidding.

By now, you've probably heard about that Google employee who wrote a memo about gender diversity measures at Google.

The customary liberal response (which I admit is also my knee-jerk response despite me not really identifying as a liberal) is that gender diversity measures are good and right because of reasons X, Y, and Z.

Here, Scott Alexander, (one of the best writers on the internet today) explains why liberals are wrong-ish about this whole subject.

I think he's swung me into his camp.

Contra Grant On Exaggerated Differences
I. An article by Adam Grant called Differences Between Men And Women Are Vastly Exaggerated is going viral, thanks in part to a share by Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg. It’s a response to an e…

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