--- ritu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Jan Coffey wrote:
>
> > Sure, Girls are better (as a group) at -memorizing- which is
> > what is ment by
> > -studying-. Girls are also better at empathic style
> > associations, being able
> > to spot the whole even when they don't understand the component parts.
> >
> > Boys are better (as a group) at logic and problem solving.
> >
> > Each individual is somewhere on this spectrum not necisarily
> > on the side
> > agreeing with their gender. You get problem solving girls and
> > memorizing
> > boys, but the probability of being at one end or the other is
> > dependent on
> > gender.
>
> I have never been too sure if it is dependant on gender or dependant on
> gender-based expectations during the child's socialisation period.
> However, certain studies of babies and very young children do seem to
> suggest that the biology also has a part in determining this.
> Baron-Cohen's empathising-systemising (E-S) theory seems to fit into
> this discussion. He holds that the female brain is predominantly
> hard-wired for empathy, and that the male brain is predominantly
> hard-wired for understanding and building systems. However, he does make
> it clear that every individual has 'male' and 'female' parts to their
> brain. This page has a link to an article about the E-S theory as well
> as links to tests which he devised to test a person's empathising and
> systemising quotient:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/page/0,12983,937443,00.html
(E-S) -> (17-57) who would have guessed :) (an I thought I was skewing it a
bit in my favor...empathicaly) Ouch!
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