Re: not a new subject - women in electronics and computing?

On 28 Nov 2006 22:37:56 -0800, "Le Chaud Lapin" <jaibuduvin@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


John Larkin wrote:
OK, I can count rapidly in binary, 0-15, on four fingers of my left
hand 1-2-4-8, while circularly rubbing my tummy with my right hand.
But I can't do it very well with the hands reversed. That must mean
something.

That's scary if you're serious.

I've always liked slim, tight, smart, almost androgynous women. When I
see a great body from behind, I have to be careful to make sure it's
not a teenage boy I'm admiring.

My wife's hormones are fine; she's just skinny.

The good thing about women who are naturally skinny is that they tend
to stay that way. I tend to prefer thinner too, unless she is a
Brazilian or a Belorussian who looks like a giant milk biscuit.
Scrumptious.

I wonder if anyone has done a comprehensive data collection on hormones
in the body. It would be interesting to correlate levels of hormones
with personal traits. I think that could determine all kinds of
things, the least of which is predisposition toward homosexuality.
What I would be really curious to know is whether there is a
correlation between females hormone level and predisposition toward
traditionally male sports (boxing, wrestling, etc.)

-Le Chaud Lapin-

It seems to me that there is enormous individual variability in
humans. All salmon and all pigeons look similar to me, and I suspect
thay are a lot more similar than people are. So all the hormone stuff
has influence but isn't absolute. Generalisms about
male/female/straight/gay/races are sort of true, but the distributions
are so wide that you can't predict much from superficialities. But
people do use the generalisms as guidelines... you *could* say it's
less likely that the average female is going to be a good circuit
designer, but that's not a reason to not interview one, or to take her
seriously.

Societies that confine females pay a very high price, wasting half of
the available talent.

John

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