Re: engineers' brains


bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
mrdarrett@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=LMQBPTKGZ5QYKQSNDLSCKHA?articleID=189401732

John


So the moral of the story is, we engineers should choose... um, how do
I say this politely... less intellectually talented females for wives?

Scarcely. The are lots of ways of being intelligent in lots of
different fields. My wife is a psycholinguist, a professor and the
author of a lot of heavily cited papers. Her opinions on the way our
central heatings system should be run are firmly held and perfecly
rational as far as they go, but wrong, because she doesn't understand
the engineering involved and isn't in a postion to appreciate the depth
of her ignorance.



"...isn't in a postion to appreciate the depth of her ignorance." I
like that line. I like it a lot. ;)

Just curious, what *were* her ideas on the modifications to the central
heating system?

Thanks,

Michael

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