[ExI] Superhuman Poker

[William Flynn Wallace]

I think the “males are better at it” is mostly because of culture. Males
still tend — in the US — to be encouraged more in this area and females are
still discouraged.

Anyhow, you’re the psychology expert. Am I far off?

Regards,

Dan

All I can tell you is that males and females are equally exposed to
language skills and females at every age are better at it.  As for 3 D
objects:  did you ever experience anywhere in your education seeing them
from behind in your mind?  Me neither.  These are only on tests.  So males
have no more experience than females.  As for the other - we know that
foreign language is learned better while very young.  Older people can
learn but they will never have the proper accent that the young develop.  I
don't know if there are other things that young people learn better, but I
suspect we will find some - sort of a critical period, only not strict.

As for culture, it is extremely difficult to separate nature and nurture,
so I suppose we can have any bias we want as long as there is no data.

bill w

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 1:25 PM Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 18, 2019, at 10:29 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  People were always asking human geniuses like Einstein and Feynman how
> they got their ideas but they could never give satisfactory answers, if
> they could we'd all be as smart as they were.  John
>
> I dispute that.  In math some people just can't go beyond a certain point
> in complexity.  They just don't have the right brain for it  (Einstein, for
> example, had more glial cells than normal - I doubt if injecting glial
> cells into your brain will make you an Einstein)..  If, for example, in
> geometry you tried to teach someone how to mentally rotate a complicated
> object and pick out the figure that it looks like from the other side, you
> would find one, that males are better at it, and two, that it cannot be
> taught.  Some people are just more spatial than other.  I am spatial.  How
> about you?
> bill w
>
>
> Isn’t it the case, though, that brain structure changes depending on
> experience. For instance, see:
>
> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/london-taxi-memory/
>
> Now, it might be someone with an early interest in, say, geometry or
> things spatial simply develops a brain better suited to imagining rotating
> objects. It could also be that some start with better capabilities here and
> then they “invest” in them. Maybe Einstein started out with above average
> capabilities here and through use augments them. And maybe if you don’t
> start early — like with language — it gets very difficult to make an
> investment pay off later in life. (Think, too, of how a concert violinist
> is made: start at an early age and practice a lot. I’m not sure a twenty
> year old who’s never played an instrument but who invests as much in
> practice and learning the instrument is going to beat the person who
> started at five years of age.)
>
> I think the “males are better at it” is mostly because of culture. Males
> still tend — in the US — to be encouraged more in this area and females are
> still discouraged.
>
> Anyhow, you’re the psychology expert. Am I far off?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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>
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