Aelf-attesting?

From Keeping up with the Fits, 1/14 by Arnold Kling.

Glenn Loury and John McWhorter wonder why there are few prominent heterodox black women relative to the number of prominent heterodox black men. They wonder whether it is because heterodox black women have difficulty getting attention.

They never consider what comes to my mind, which is to relate heterodoxy to gender.

Empirically, men and women to tend to differ on the trait that personality psychology calls agreeableness. More women show up as high in agreeableness than men.

[As an aside, I once wrote Nassim Taleb and the Disagreeables.

Nassim Taleb’s latest book heaps praise on the trait that personality psychologists call low agreeableness. . . I am pretty far out on the disagreeable end of the spectrum myself, but Taleb makes me look like a goody two-shoes.

Taleb came across the essay and tweeted this response:

There is this BS in this "disagreebleness" scale used by psychologists, unconditional of domain. Like most psych categorizations, BS. Many are socially gentle but intellectually rigorous & no-nonsense: others nasty in person but appear gentle in public . BS!

I rest my case.]