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Read the following passage and choose the answer that is closest to each of the questions that are based on the passage.

The perennial debate over gender differences threatens to remain inconclusive. Stereotypes pertaining to male superiority and female submissiveness could be traced to earlier ages where assigned roles were needed as survival measures. But, can we today see a swing away from these stereotypes, or have they established a stranglehold on our perceptions? In this gendered world, we continue to live with notions that one's gender determines one's skills and preferences, from toys and colours to career choices. So the girl child will be presented with a Barbie doll, while the boy child will receive a Lego set.

Does that mean that our brains are different? This myth has been exploded by a British professor of cognitive neuroimaging. Her research attempts to establish how these stereotypes mould our ideas of ourselves. She examines how science has been misinterpreted or misused to ask the wrong questions, instead of challenging the status quo. She urges us to move beyond a binary view of people's brains and instead to see these as highly individualised, profoundly adaptable, and full of unbounded potential. Her conclusive findings establish that no brain differences can be found that are solely gender related. In other words, modern neuroscientists have identified no decisive category-defining differences between the brains of men and women.

As a result of these findings we owe it to ourselves to dump the myths and look at ourselves afresh. We need to recognise that the male and female brain debate is a distraction, besides being based on inaccuracies. It is possibly harmful too, because it can be used as a hook to justify saying there is no point in girls doing science because they do not have a science brain; or compelling boys to opt for science because their brains are shaped for that subject. It can also condemn boys for being emotional, as this is seen as a feminine trait. And, most dangerous of all, to proclaim that boys, not girls, are meant to lead.

Question 9 : One of the dangers in adopting a binary view of the human brain is that it can

1. promote the notion of feminine and masculine traits.
2. determine as well as limit academic choices.
3. lead to the distortion and misinterpretation of scientific data.
4. be used to encourage male dominance and superiority.

Explanatory Answer

Option A
This option seems to be right. The statement, "In this gendered world, we continue to live with notions that one's gender determines one's skills and preferences, from toys and colours to career choices", seems to validate the option. Let us leave it as such and look at the other options.

Option B
This option seems to be right as well. The statement, "… it can be used as a hook to justify saying there is no point in girls doing science because they do not have a science brain; or compelling boys to opt for science because their brains are shaped for that subject", seems to validate the option. Let us leave this for now and move on.

Option C
There is no mention of "distortion" of scientific "data" as such in the passage. So, this option can be eliminated.

Option D
This option also seems to be right, and is validated by the statement, "And, most dangerous of all, to proclaim that boys, not girls, are meant to lead."

The question is "One of the dangers in adopting a binary view of the human brain is that it can"

Hence, the answer is promote the notion of feminine and masculine traits.

Choice A is the correct answer

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