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Swami
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Why can't women compete with men?
#1729283 - 07/19/03 12:49 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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No, I am NOT talking about sports where men clearly have a physical speed and strength advantage, but about events such as chess, backgammon, poker in the mental realm; and pool and bowling in the physical realm. Sure there is the rare woman that can, but most women prefer to compete against other women in these and other similar events as they do not believe they can compete on an even keel with men (in general).
Do men, on average, have superior confidence, motor skills or hand-eye co-ordination? Is it cultural or genetic? Maybe women just don't care enough to take the time to study and practice or are not aggressive enough.
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Swami]
#1729295 - 07/19/03 01:03 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Certainly I think women are more apt to play it safe. Men may win big, but they are more likely to take larger risks.
I think that our evolution has endowed us with the superior skills when it comes to area you outlined. Our hunting skills needed excellent motor skills, and strategy. So I do believe we have a significant genetic advantage.
Cultural influences also definately play a part. I think these have been gaining momentum in their breakdown though. I saw a statistic a couple of years back, that said on their current rate of improvment versus men's, women will meet or exceed men's performance in I believe it was 50 years.
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Swami]
#1729306 - 07/19/03 01:15 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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I think it has to do with statistics and genetics. Men have only one X chromosome while women have two. This causes gene expression associated with the X chromosome to be more stable in women, and more varied in men. Color blindness and haemophilia for example, is much more common in men than in women.
But this also seems to affect some aspects of intelligence. IQ has a gaussian (bell curve) statistical distribution, and the tests have been calibrated so that the center of the curves coincide for men and women (at IQ 100). But the statistical spread is larger for men, so among the highest and lowest percentiles there will always be more men than women.
Evolution essentially uses men as guinea pigs, since men are more expendable than women when it comes to reproduction. This has both positive and negative aspects.
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Rhizoid]
#1729333 - 07/19/03 01:29 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Color blindness and haemophilia for example, is much more common in men than in women.
Clearly an advantage for the male gender in competition.
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Swami]
#1729392 - 07/19/03 02:10 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Well, it's not the male gender as a group that wins competitions. It's just a few at the top. That's my whole point.
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? *DELETED* [Re: Rhizoid]
#1729450 - 07/19/03 02:43 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Steevil]
#1729825 - 07/19/03 09:06 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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girls can be just as good (or better) at endurance sports like LD running. I read some article about how women in the military might make better trench soilders cause of body fat or something like that.... some storage or energy that males don't have.
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Swami]
#1729905 - 07/19/03 10:38 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Maybe it's that men, by nature seem to be more competitive than women? I think that men are more prone to 'proving' themselves against other men, to see who is 'best' (Alpha male?). It reminds me of an article I read in New Scientist a little while back:
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Boys compete 'for the sake of it' 09:30 25 August 02 Boys will compete just for the sake of it, but girls will not waste effort on competition unless it pays, a Canadian study has revealed. Rosanne Roy from McGill University in Montreal and her colleagues got 40 groups of four boys or four girls, aged 5 to 6 or 9 to 10, to play two specially designed games. In one, for instance, the children had to thread beads on a stick until it was full, taking the beads from either a common pot or another player. One set of rules meant that everyone would eventually win, so competition was pointless. Another set of rules allowed for only one winner, so competing made sense. The girls spent more time watching the reactions of their competitors and responding to them. "They would watch the facial expression of their opponent as they decided whether or not to take the bead. Sometimes they would decide not to," says Roy. And the older girls wasted no effort on competition, except when it paid off. Boys, on the other hand, competed just for the sake of it, even if there was nothing to be gained. "It was way too much fun to take from others," Roy says. The team's research was presented at the International Society for Human Ethology conference in Montreal. Alison Motluk
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Swami]
#1730256 - 07/19/03 02:20 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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they CAN compete - they just have different distractions than we do in my opinion, and most of them could care less about chess and games of that sort
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Swami]
#1731274 - 07/19/03 10:38 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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It's generally because woman tend to have more focus in the right hemisphere of the brain, where 'creativity', 'feelings', and 'emotion' is strongest. Men tend to be left-brain dominated, where 'logic', 'rational thinking', and cognitive abilities are strongest. Were we to have emotional olympics, the woman would kick our asses.
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Shroomism]
#1731285 - 07/19/03 10:44 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Perhaps women have been suppressed for thousands of years, looked "down" upon. Maybe they chose this, or maybe generation after generation formed them this way due to being expected to perform more "womanly" tasks. In any case, I definately dont know the truth.
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Steevil]
#1731857 - 07/20/03 05:13 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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A chemistry teacher of mine once told my class that out of 14 different areas that one study divided intelligence into, such as verbal, arithmetic, etc, women beat men in 13.
You're talking about averages now, right? I bet you would still find a majority of men in the 99th percentile if the test population is large enough.
It's easy to see how this can happen. Assume we have two populations, called A and B, and that both have approximately gaussian distributions of scores on some test. Here is the distribution for population A:
Score - Percentage 1. - 0 2. - 0 3. - 0 4. - 4 5. - 24 6. - 44 7. - 24 8. - 4 9. - 0
And here is the distribution for population B:
Score - Percentage 1. - 1 2. - 4 3. - 11 4. - 21 5. - 26 6. - 21 7. - 11 8. - 4 9. - 1
The average score is 6 for population A, but only 5 for population B. And of those who have the highest score (the "winners"), one hundred percent come from population B.
This was an artificially constructed example, but it illustrates the principle clearly.
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Rhizoid]
#1732409 - 07/20/03 01:32 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Interesting... *strokes chin*
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Sclorch]
#1732549 - 07/20/03 02:41 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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News in Science- Male Y chromosome here to stay
this is an interseting thing I read in the paper a while back. turns out y chromosomes aren't a dead end. in fact, they are quite a bit more self sufficient than the X chromosome.
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: LikwidDrawp]
#1733870 - 07/21/03 12:49 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Perhaps women have been suppressed for thousands of years,
I doubt that top women bowlers, whose average is significantly lower than top male bowlers, are frequently, consciously or unconsciously, affected by the political plight of women a thousand years ago.
"Gee, I will miss this spare because we did not get the right to vote until 100 years ago."
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Swami]
#1733935 - 07/21/03 01:23 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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well, I think women have trouble competing because most things are designed for males/by the male mind. Im sure males have difficutly with things created by the female mind/for females.
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Please give an example? Note that the best chefs in the world are men.
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Swami]
#1733977 - 07/21/03 01:40 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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males are doing the same shit they had to do back in the caves... go get the food... find and trade mushrooms. you know how it is. getting flint and stone. building some shelters and shit. they knew the only way they could keep on chugging is if they fought the environment... and as they moved into other men they fought or whatever. cause they had to protect their territory. Its just so simple... our species is not THAT advanced. its just till lately we have been able to spread the information... put it together. categorize it... fuck it up again and shoot it back out... and now where we are... i have no idea. transition hopefully, i just hope that people decide to move on with the transformation process, make choices to change. to understand and to coexist. but thats up to the will of each individual on our planet.... so good luck to them! and getting past our old ways.
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Swami]
#1733982 - 07/21/03 01:42 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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ok, you're right swami, women are just inferior.
oh, that's not what you're trying to point at? then make a point. you seem to have a socrates complex.
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Re: Why can't women compete with men? [Re: Malachi]
#1733988 - 07/21/03 01:44 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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swami - caring for children
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