On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 10:46:22 UTC, QAston wrote:
[citations needed] for so much you post. You need to update your knowledge of evo-psych.
You should learn not to open a reply with going ad hominem. The fact that you don't, suggests to me that I've struck a nerve and that you basically don't have much to add to this debate...
I am also not basing my statements on pseudo-scientific evo-psych...
I could tell you exact opposite: men are the more coopoerative sex.
I haven't said anything about one sex being more cooperative than the other.
You know when males are competitive? When they compete for female attention.
Men position themselves also with other men they like, women are more likely to compete with people they don't like and more likely to downplay their own position with people they like to put themselves at the same level and create a connection. You very rarely see men claim that they are less capable in order to connect with people they like. The average woman communicate more at the personal level, are more likely to resolve issues they have, and are less likely to commit suicide as a result. Those are facts.
Statistical gender differences are real, measurable and observable to anyone willing to look at it. Does it apply at the individual level? No. There are greater differences between individuals than between genders.
However, an all-female community and an all-male community have typically different characteristics. Both online and offline.
You know why programming attracts various social outcasts? Because we've always been welcoming. Don't fuck that up.
Actually, the D forums can be quite hostile at times, but it doesn't last for a very long.
I've actually spent years of my life studying social interaction on the internet and virtual worlds, academically. So you will most likely fail to engage me at a level where I can learn anything from your "citations".
What exactly are you trying to tell me? That programmers are somehow outcasts, by what definition? Even if it was true, then maybe it would be the other way around, given that system level programming is an extremely time consuming activity.
