!-- This is my most misunderstood book, and I have devoted some attention to trying to understand why. ... --> I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences ... This, many readers felt, was too much. It was too pretty. I must have found what I was looking for. But this misconception comes from a lack of understanding of what anthropology means, of the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder, that which one would not have been able to guess. (Margaret Mead)

!-- This is my most misunderstood book, and I have devoted some attention to trying to understand why. ... --> I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences ... This, many readers felt, was too much. It was too pretty. I must have found what I was looking for. But this misconception comes from a lack of understanding of what anthropology means, of the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder, that which one would not have been able to guess.

Margaret Mead

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