4 Tags: sex differences, natalism
7 Growing up as a younger child in an atomized, low-fertility [WEIRD](https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/10/western-educated-industrialized-rich-and-democratic/181667/) world, I was until recently in the historically anomalous position of not really having any idea what children are actually like. (I have memories from childhood, but that's not the same as field observations with an adult intellect—everything from before age 14 or so feels insufficiently continuous with my current self to really have been 'me'.)
9 It's not clear to what extent people really have [anticipation-controlling](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a7n8GdKiAZRX86T5A/making-beliefs-pay-rent-in-anticipated-experiences) beliefs in the absence of lived-experience data, but the narratives we _think_ we believe come from what we read.
11 One such narrative relevant to the topic focus of this blog is: "Psychological sex differences are fake/tiny/socially-constructed." Another [metacontrarian](TODO: linky) one that I got a lot of exposure to as I sought out ideologically-inconvenient science during my twenties was, "Overeducated out-of-touch liberals _think_ that psychological sex differences are fake/tiny/socially-constructed, until they have children of their own and see for themselves how much is innate."
15 Maccoby ([RIP](https://archive.is/MbUUN) 😢) and Jacklin correctly