Is the VMS a work of female authors ?

[RenegadeHealer]

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It would be cool if we could show a picture of the VM to a handwriting analysis AI. But from the abstract of that link it seems to me that they are talking about text patterns (vocabulary?), not handwriting per se.

I can weigh in on this a bit. Science is only beginning to understand the way that prenatal and pubescent doses of testosterone (or the lack thereof) affect brain development, but the effects of this variable are quite wide reaching.

bim3w, that paper you linked is fascinating. In the late 90s, I took a multiple choice test online that was similar in purpose to the Bem Sex-Role Inventory. Each question consisted of a statement, with 4~6 different responses to choose from. I had to choose the response listed that felt closest to the response I would give in real life to such a statement. I noticed that for many of the test questions, the responses to choose from differed only in wording, and expressed largely the same sentiment. (It correctly identified me as androgynous, or what is called “genderqueer” in some circles nowadays, in case you were wondering.) Since a lot of the choices differed only in wording, clearly the test used documented statistical differences in the way men and women use language, as it’s basis for placing test subjects. I have indeed been mistaken for a woman when I’ve posted anonymously.

In terms of handwriting, what I’ve noticed anecdotally is that girls and women deviate from the cursive penmanship models originally taught to them less than  boys and men do. Whether this says something about gendered brain differences in fine motor control, language, problem solving, or all three, remains to be seen.