Unequal outcomes, especially at the extremes, do *not* prove the process was unfair.
Men are better at driving too...
Mens are more better.
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?
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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.
Either my wife or myself is a glaring exception to this rule.
I ussually win all scrabble games with my wife while she often wins at bannagrams. Interesting differences
And men make better body noises...
My husband, who says he is a poor speller, wins at most game of strategy. It is disgusting.
Many games depend on the hand drawn and strategy can not pull it off, however. Then it is luck.
I am a much better driver than he is, BTW.
Solving cryptic crosswords is even more of a feminine activity, since you have to understand the meanings of words and have a lot of literary and historical knowledge. The best solvers? Nearly all men. Here are the results from last month’s Times championships:
https://extras.thetimes.co.uk/web/public/pdfs/195a2ae3d382f1f5d3c3d072691b2207.pdf
So true. Permission to steal?
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 outnumber women in the NFL MLB and NHL.
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.
Women everywhere tell me they agree that men are better at taking out the trash, mowing the lawn, and killing bugs.
r1- I do not believe the process is unfair. In the world of chess, for a time, chess was somewhat of a ‘national sport’ in Russia. They groomed and tutored promising females assiduously - Russia would have taken great national pride in producing a female champion. Russian male chess champions dominated the game for 50 years from the late 40’s to the early 90’s.
When Ronaldus Magnus caused the collapse of the iron curtain, many emigrated to the US, and parked themselves in NYC. Subsequently, area schools began to win championships:
https://tinyurl.com/ycmcg5xo
and
https://tinyurl.com/y8v9w73y
and
https://tinyurl.com/y9ck4bs7
What remains interesting however, is the point of the thread (imo) - WHY is the female brain so far, incapable of such a summit?
To miss m and Mermaid - this is in no way a bash at women. In truth I find your comments interesting and informative on the various subjects we prattle on about here on FR.
In fact I believe these 3 sisters could beat anyone on FR in a game of chess, BLINDFOLDED!
“My Brilliant Brain” is about the Polgar sisters, Susan in particular (@47 min.). Natgeo had her in an fMRI to actually look into the area of her brain she used to process chess problems (it was the ‘facial recognition’ area).
Fascinating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wzs33wvr9E
Off topic, but I’d like to share my recent discovery of a female prodigy, Alma Deutscher:
She’s completely captivating to me:
https://www.almadeutscher.com/
Musical genius on the level of Mozart, in our time!
If women wear low cut outfits then the men would be distracted. You can tell in Scrabble when the guy spells out BREASTS for 100 points....