--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, garymaher@j... wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 11:00:16 -0500 audities-owner@s... writes:
> > I think men and women would have a lot more in common if society did
> not
> > try to pigeon-hole children from a very very young age.
>
> These "nurture" v. "nature" posts are making good points.
>
> We need to find some "musically virginal" boys and girls from a culture
> that doesn't push kids like we do, play them Rush and Celine, and see if
> there's any natural predisposition (nature) or if it's all societally
> learned behavior (nurture).
>
> Any sociomusicologists in the group?  ;-)
>
> g

Well, I have a masters in Psychology and taught college-level Psych for
seven years, so...

Your idea is a very good one in theory, but in practice it would be very,
very difficult to find a culture that is totally devoid of all the possible
gender-based factors that could potentially bias this study.  If somehow we
could raise kids from birth in a previously designed socio-gender-neutral
environment and then test them on their responses to Rush, Celine and other
supposedly gender-specific artists, then we might have something.  However,
and no disrespect intended towards B.F. Skinner, even if something like this
*could* be done, there are many good reasons why the human race is better
off not "going there" with respect to totally controlling ones environment
from birth.
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Freedom Rules!!!!!
Take Care,
David