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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Stereotypical femininity is social, stereotypical masculinity is analytical. Analytical genius is more of a recognizable/scalable thing than social genius. Also, men tend to be higher variance and thus disproportionately make up geniuses, so I'd say genius seems more masculine.
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Lulie
@reasonisfun
Is being a genius compatible with being feminine? 'Feminine' has a social quality—soothing conflicts, caring for feelings. 'Genius' requires(?) bucking social—doing things that are 'crazy', violating conventions. @sentientist @webdevMason @Aella_Girl @SamoBurja @juliagalef
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Chris Sawyer
@Behav_Inquiry
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@Aella_Girl
That's a tricky premise. There are accepted standards for an intelligence quotient (IQ) for a "genius". People do try and cite "EQ" or "Emotional Intelligence" as a metric but for all the flack IQ gets, EQ lacks empirical backing by an even insurmountable margin.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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You're right, i generally agree with this. What I'm trying to get at, though, is what if you identify the skills/type of attention most correlated with gender, and then turn the knob on those all the way up? For men you'd get something like great math skills, and for women?
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