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Venkatesh Rao
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    1. webdavNifty‏ @niftynei 9 Jun 2019
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      Yikes

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Jun 2019
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      Iirc spatial reasoning is one of the very few documented cognition differences between men and women on average. Penn State had (female) engineering profs improve CAD course outcomes by addressing the gap directly https://www.engr.psu.edu/AWE/misc/ARPs/VisualSpatialWeb%2003_22_05.pdf …

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Jun 2019
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      I'm now thinking women would likely perform better on certain classes of temporal reasoning tasks.

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    4. webdavNifty‏ @niftynei 9 Jun 2019
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      There’s a deep irony here, of you espousing a gendered view on intelligence in a thread that’s ostensibly rooted in your understanding of feminine thinkers

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    5. webdavNifty‏ @niftynei 9 Jun 2019
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      This excerpt from @davidgraeber’s Utopia of Rules is a bit over the top but nicely encapsulates my discomfort with what you’re doing herepic.twitter.com/fOpEwuuWrK

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Jun 2019
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      Yeah, that's a definite concern, but otoh I do want to pay attention to the sources of apparent differences I see in how I think about stuff and how some women writers seem to. I'm not pre-committed to either there being differences or no differences.

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    7. webdavNifty‏ @niftynei 9 Jun 2019
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      Ok but “this particular brand of women thinkers” is not “women”

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    8. webdavNifty‏ @niftynei 9 Jun 2019
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      fwiw there are definitive and measurable differences in the ways that men and women see and move through the world but any discussion of that without mentioning the generational violence that shapes the differences in their lived environments is depicting a fiction of equality

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Jun 2019
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      I think we agree entirely on that statement. I'm just noting that one particular idea that interests me has been disproportionately explored by women relative to other adjacent topics, and am wondering why. There's no obviously social/environmental reason I can see.

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    10. webdavNifty‏ @niftynei 9 Jun 2019
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      Yes and you could make this point without making a comparison to some other, unrelated “scientifically proven”™️ aptitude of men. The juxtaposition is unrelated to your observation

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Jun 2019
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      Time and space are related topics in my head and I'm talking about time so naturally went to ideas about space perception.

      12:51 PM - 9 Jun 2019
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