In Gould’s essay “Women’s Brains,” hypophora is used by acknowledging the strengths of the opposing argument while simultaneously disproving it to support his own. This strategy is used in paragraph 3, when Gould writes, “Had he not measured with the most scrupulous care and accuracy? (Indeed, he had… But science is an inferential exercise, not a catalog of facts. Numbers, by themselves, specify nothing. All depends upon what you do with them.)” He agrees with the fact that Broca’s research is “meticulous” and in-depth, but suggests that the misuse of this data will produce inaccurate interpretations. The primary use of hypophora is to gain the trust of the audience by proving that the author can see both sides of an argument and still
