What does Daniel Cox's research say about how well young men and women understand each other?

Daniel Cox told Chris Williamson that only 42% of young men think women understand their problems, and only 25% of young women say men understand theirs. He thinks they understand each other less than past generations because they have had fewer chances to date or simply talk across the sexes, and they fill the gap with stereotypes picked up from social media, which shows only perfect relationships or disasters.

• Cox cites a Washington Post finding that gender was one of the most effective ways the algorithm separated users, feeding each sex content that reinforced its views of the other.
• In Cox's book, teenagers asked to imagine waking up as the opposite sex answered mostly with stereotypes.

Source: our own transcription of the episode. The full conversation is on Modern Wisdom (2026-10-22). Read the whole episode summary →

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