Posted on 11/17/2018 4:43:08 AM PST by reaganaut1
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Since the World Scrabble Championship began in 1991, all winners have been male. The North American Scrabble Championship has had one female winner (in 1987) since its founding in 1978. All eight finalists in this year’s French World Scrabble Championships were men.
Competitive Scrabble constitutes a natural experiment for testing the feminist worldview. According to feminist dogma, males and females are identical in their aptitudes and interests. If men dominate certain data-based, abstract fields like engineering, physics and math, that imbalance must, by definition, be the result of sexism—whether a patriarchal culture that discourages girls from math or implicit bias in the hiring process.
But there are no cultural expectations that discourage females from memorizing dictionaries—a typical strategy of competitive Scrabble players, often in a foreign language that the player doesn’t speak. Girls are as free as boys to lap up vocabulary. Nor are there misogynist gatekeepers to keep females out of Scrabble play; the game, usually first learned at home, is open to all. According to Hasbro , 83% of recreational Scrabble players 25 to 54 are female.
Championship Scrabble, however, rewards typically male obsessions: strategy, math, a passion for competition, and a drive to memorize facts. Mr. Richards’s mother told the Guardian in 2015 that he “related everything to numbers” when he was growing up. Feminists will need to employ circular logic to conjure forth a discriminatory barrier in Scrabble: Males’ excellence at a certain activity itself keeps females out. But that leaves unanswered the question of how males came to excel at Scrabble—or any other abstract, competitive activity—in the first place.
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Unequal outcomes, especially at the extremes, do *not* prove the process was unfair.
Men are better at driving too...
Mens are more better.
I don’t think so.
Insurance stats and rates prove it.
He said better, not safer.
Listen, they are not using Pink chess pieces.
Women would win if the chess pieces were of two shades of pink.
Got that?
French World Scrabble? Do all the words have to be in French?
If women get in less accidents, that can be a key factor in being a better driver.
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No, you don’t get. I have seen guys that were very coordinated and skilled at something but were also dare devils. Pushing it to the limit. You don’t understand the young male mind.
I cannot be sure about my Dad but my Mum,despite her relative lack of "formal" education,routinely completed the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle.
In pen.
My guess is that she would have held her own in any Scrabble game...at any level.
When a woman stops on an acceleration ramp and gets rear-ended it isn’t her fault. Even though she caused the accident.
Yes,it could be.But it also could be due to things like the number of miles men and women drive,the time of day they drive and the types of roadways they use.I'd be willing to bet that insurance companies and Government agencies have very detailed stats covering many variables.
What does that have to do with any thing.
When anyone stops on an acceleration ramp they get rear ended.
Unless you are implying that men take the blame for women’s driving.
A good driver would be able to stop when there is a object in their travel path. And women would be plowing into these women drivers who you say stop on ramps.
Oui.
So overall, as I said, women are better drivers.
My grandfather had only a high school education but was scrabble whiz.
He also had a ton of awards and the like from multiple accounting orgs.
If a very skilled stunt/test pilot kills himself pushing an aircraft to the limit do we call him a bad pilot? No, he was very skilled pilot. He pushed it, gambled and lost. You could call him unsafe but not unskilled. See the difference?
That may be the case but with the information we have, women are better drivers.
The most dangerous driving age is 40 to 60 year old men on motorcycles.
My wife has an English degree and I generally win at scrabble.
She does better than me at monopoly.
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