Under cognitive differences, assumptions about men’s better math ability and women's better verbal ability are dangerous as it could lead to sex discrimination when people think that one sex is better at something than the other. For spatial skills, a sex comparison depends on the type of skill and although men have recorded better performance in this area, the difference with females' performance is insignificant and ranges from small to medium. Although most spatial skills such as mental rotation, target location and special visualization favor men women thrive in object location memory. Overall, sex differences in these abilities stabilize and increase with age and this has been attributed to sexes using different approaches to solve problems.
When comparing sex in social settings, it is difficult to get empirical conclusions because it lacks a standard measure. Like cognitive abilities, when measuring empathy, although women are favored by this measure, the sex difference depends on how empathy is determined. A 1998 meta-analysis showed higher sex differences when measurement was done by self-reporting compared to observation. Experts believe that people can easily manipulate their reactions to conform to social expectations. This affects their empathetic accuracy and so differences in empathy may be because men and women believe they are expected to act as they do even when they don’t really feel so. Women may be better at empathy because they easily derive others emotional states from non-verbal cues.
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I hold a maximalist view about sex differences. Despite the small outcome variation in performance on different tasks between men and women, the variation in their approach is apparent. This means that even when the results of their different approaches may not be significantly varied, the fact that they have different viewpoints is significant as it affects motivation, morality, and interactions between sexes.
