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Carnal Knowledge: Limitations, lessons of gender stereotypes (Philadelphia Inquirer)

When scientists pooled dozens of studies of sex differences last year, they found that while we’re quite different on the playground and somewhat different in the bedroom, we’re surprisingly similar in the classroom and the boardroom.

Those results showed men, on average, can throw a baseball farther, are more open to one-night stands, and masturbate more often, says University of Wisconsin psychologist Janet Hyde, who led the project.