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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Anyway, when I was a young teen, my Dad told me that he would give me $5 if I could do the NYT crossword puzzle. I took the challenge. I cut the puzzle out out of the paper and went at it. In about an hour, I presented the result to my Dad. He was amazed and duly impressed and even a bit proud that I was able to do it. He then handed me $5 for doing yesterday's NYT crossword puzzle. I confessed 40 years later.
CHEAT! CHEAT! CHEAT! ;-)
There was this one, but she crashed a lot.
Men are more diverse. On average women are better at Scrabble, but championship scrabble is about extremes and when you get to extremes of almost anything, there will be more men at the extreme end.
Men drive 60% more miles per year.
http://www.freeby50.com/2012/09/average-miles-driven-annually-by-age.html?m=1
Women have more car accidents, but the damage is less. Men, especially young men, have catastrophic accidents.
There are worse things that can be said about a person than that she was very astute and talented, and deserving of filial loyalty, in my view.
Men outnumber women in the NFL MLB and NHL.
A better question is how many WINNING female race car drivers.
Narrows the field even more.
Insurance rates measure safety and risk, not skill.
“Better” is a subjective judgment, and based on whatever criteria is used, may or may not have anything to do safety or minimizing risk while driving. For example, some of the “best” drivers are found at NASCAR races.
Depends on what you're qualifying by "better."
NO... You’re are attempting to define “better” as having fewer accidents. A small percentage of men who are excessive risk takers skews the results. The ability: Driving, has a range of characteristics that has to be considered when determining what is best. “Accidents” is only one characteristic.
Think of the population of male and female drivers as a bell curve and then remove the extremes at the ends. The average man will be better than the average woman. The worst male drivers will be worse than the worse female drivers and the best male drivers will be better than the best female drivers.
Statistically speaking men tend to have better spatial awareness than women. This translates into higher driving abilities. Look at the domination of men in the motor sports...
Better was the term used here.
Skilled does not necessarily mean better.
Judgement and safety record certainly count at least as much as skilled to define a better driver.
Better was the term used here.
Skilled does not necessarily mean better.
Judgement and safety record certainly count at least as much as skilled to define a better driver.
Wouldn’t surprise me if there were a sex-linked difference.
Memorization and some sort of spacial processing and the competitive drive to “train”, compete, and win are what’s required. The one competitive player I know has zero interest in the meaning or use of esoteric words—he just wants to compete and win.
My guess would be that there is a significantly higher ratio of men so driven, but that they make it to the highest levels and win at a level beyond that difference in numbers.
Men outnumber women in the NFL MLB and NHL.
I was only kidding!
That’s due to under-25 males, raging hormones lead to too-aggressive driving. That pretty much disappears entirely after age 25. Factor them out and the picture is entirely different.
That’s due to under-25 males, raging hormones lead to too-aggressive driving. That pretty much disappears entirely after age 25. Factor them out and the picture is entirely different.
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So? They are still men and my statement holds.
Perhaps, but it’s just as misleading as averaging in crime stats from inner city war zones with the rest of the country and saying the whole country has a crime problem. If the driver next to you is not under 25 you are safer if that driver is male.
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