Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine

How hard is Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference to read?

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference scores 36 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Vocabulary: 38 out of 100

Fine writes in clear, witty contemporary prose and explains terms like priming and stereotype threat as she goes. The occasional neuroscience term stays accessible, much nearer Atomic Habits than any literary anchor.

Sentence structure: 38 out of 100

Her sentences are lively and well controlled, with occasional long qualifying clauses when she dissects a study. The prose is plainer than The Remains of the Day in structure.

Abstraction: 45 out of 100

Each argument rests on concrete experiments, such as maths tests and baby studies, and on named popular authors. The ideas about social cognition and stereotypes stay tied to examples, like the concrete cases in Atomic Habits but more theoretical.

Information density: 55 out of 100

The book packs in many studies, statistics and critiques of popular books across 93,000 words. Fine moves quickly from one piece of research to the next, which is denser than Atomic Habits.

How Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference is regarded

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference holds a literary regard score of 55 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.

About the author

Cordelia Fine