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To: Sherman Logan
“The problem with your theory is that there is no mental or physiological reason whatsoever that a woman can’t be just as good at this particular activity as a man.”

And yet they have separate titles for Chess champ. Billiards, Bowling, Golf. There are differences and they go deep.

20 posted on 04/11/2015 5:36:05 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job...)
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To: TalBlack

There should not be separate titles for sports where the physical differences don’t play a role. Of those you list obviously chess and billiards, possibly bowling, which is more a game of finesse and precision and strength.

For golf and most other sports, the very best women compete on roughly the top high school athlete level for men.

On looking at it again, the dominance of men in chess may very well illustrate actual mental differences between the sexes. I suspect it’s an example of the way men are much more diverse in mental characteristics than women.

While men and women are equal in average IQ, far more men are found on each end of the bell curve. Many more geniuses, and many more morons. The female IQ bell curve is taller and thinner.

Possibly something similar applies with the weird mental characteristics needed to play chess at the championship level.

Or quite possibly fewer women are weird enough to do what it takes to become that proficient at chess.


26 posted on 04/11/2015 5:42:59 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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