Psychologist and author Cordelia Fine, who in 2010 published Delusions of Gender, a book about the problems with brain research that includes Nash and Grossi’s findings, adds that, even if their findings were right, Connellan, Baron-Cohen, and their colleagues made too big a leap when speculating about what they might mean. “One assumption is that these visual preferences predict a child’s later empathizing versus systemizing interests, for which there is no evidence either way,” she tells me.
