And so as I've recently gotten some field data thanks to some of my friends actually having children (!!) in the past few years, it has been a _pleasant surprise_ to notice the metacontrarian counternarrative making _failed_ predictions in the form of my friends' kids' individual personalities not being overtly stereotypical: friend's daughter's (age 3) fantasy doll play frequently revolves around epic battles of good guys _vs_. bad guys (with the bad guys regularly being killed or put in jail); other friend's son (age 2) is the subject of adorable anecdotes about wanting to hug and not hurt people, and his current special interest is endlessly rewatching the documentary [_Babies_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babies_(film)). The glorious [Hydeian](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16173891) counter-counternarrative is confirmed: maybe some sex differences are real, but the effect sizes are so small that you really should just treat everyone as individuals, _not_ out of ideological commitments, but because it actually makes sense!! Rah! ⚥ 💖
And so as I've recently gotten some field data thanks to some of my friends actually having children (!!) in the past few years, it has been a _pleasant surprise_ to notice the metacontrarian counternarrative making _failed_ predictions in the form of my friends' kids' individual personalities not being overtly stereotypical: friend's daughter's (age 3) fantasy doll play frequently revolves around epic battles of good guys _vs_. bad guys (with the bad guys regularly being killed or put in jail); other friend's son (age 2) is the subject of adorable anecdotes about wanting to hug and not hurt people, and his current special interest is endlessly rewatching the documentary [_Babies_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babies_(film)). The glorious [Hydeian](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16173891) counter-counternarrative is confirmed: maybe some sex differences are real, but the effect sizes are so small that you really should just treat everyone as individuals, _not_ out of ideological commitments, but because it actually makes sense!! Rah! ⚥ 💖