Dnia Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:39:09AM +0200, Thomas A. Schmitz napisał(a): > > On Jul 28, 2010, at 11:29 AM, John Haltiwanger wrote: > > >On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Marcin Borkowski > >> > >>I am not sure that I understood your point, but I am quite convinced > >>that the low percentage of women in mathematics or IT is caused > >>primarily by the simple fact that an average female brain is not well > >>fit for this particular purpose. (Of course, we all know notable > >>exceptions. Also note that "better/worse fit for one particular > >>purpose" is completely unrelated to "better/worse in general".) > > > >I'd laugh at this if it wasn't the same shit that's been going around > >for years in the math/IT circles. Socialization is the cause behind > >this, not natural differences in brain structure. If the society has > >decided to accept and repeat this "fact" over and over, and men will > >generally act as if it is true (pushing out females who make the > >attempt), then it will come to "appear" as true. But that doesn't make > >it any less BS. > > No no, I've seen excellent scientific research on this question. It > was in a German periodical of 1938. The article explained why women > can't do math. I also gave a rigorous demonstration that Poles are > genetically inferior to Germans and can only be plumbers or thieves... > > But seriously: Marcin, I would recommend you stop posting on this. All > you show is your complete lack of intellectual awareness. You're > embarrassing yourself, and that's all.
Why? Only because I don't believe some claims I find to be highly controversial? And BTW, where's the famous freedom of speech? I do not claim that I have any research behind my opinion, but I claim that neither have you. Any experiment in social science involves so many factors that obtaining any certain results is imho nearly impossible. And I do not find anything which would mean that women are "worse" than men just because they are different. Of course, it might be the case that I am just not right, but I don't think that being not right is embarassing when you have no proofs in either direction. In other words: I cannot imagine an experiment which might prove any of us wrong on this subject, and I can see some hints which support your claim and some which support mine. Regards -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.pl) ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
