Re: engineers' brains


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.

One of the women that I didn't end up marrying is a professor of
psychology in New York and a fellow of the Acoustical Society of
American, while another is pro-vice-chancellor for research at some
Australian University after an interesting career in sociology and
economics.

The brain imaging people don't seem to have noted the way that using
your brain can change the volume of specific regions in your head.
London taxi drivers in training develop a larger hippocampus as they
spend their two years learning every street in London - "the knowledge"
that they have to be able to demonstrate before they can get a
cab-drivers licene in London.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/677048.stm

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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