Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:41:18 12/10/98
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Hi: In fact i remember I have seen, two or three times, post made by women, very short all of them ,juts demanding some information. Then they vannished. This is an old discussion and the first time we did it here i was flamed because I dared to say that, according to some studies, women mind is -in average- not fitted to this kind of intelectual endeavour, I mean, concentrated, logical, obsesive kind of intelection oriented towards abstract problems. I do not evaluate that as bad or good; you can define intelligence as you wish and so declare women or men more intelligent than the other side. But it is a matter of fact that not only in chess computers but in almost any intelectual enterprise where abstract reasonning and long and painful research and thinking is needed, women almost disappear from the scenary. Just take a look at math and physics departments, ingeniering, etc in any unversity of the world, not to say the list of the really eminent scientifics and philosophers. Yes, this is an old argument, but gravitation law is old also and still valid as far as I know. On the contrary, where intelectual endeavour is oriented more to imagination and fantasy, as writting, differences is not existent or minimal. Of course there is room to exceptions and of course we can evaluate this fact in the most politicaly correct way. You always can say that women are smarter precisely because they does not do this or that. In fact, today there are "kind of intelligences" for all tastes. Pick what you like. Fernando
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