<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">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.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Anyhow, you’re the psychology expert. Am I far off?<span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br><br><div dir="ltr" style=""><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">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.</font></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">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.</font></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">bill w</font></span></div></div></div></span></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 1:25 PM Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">On Jul 18, 2019, at 10:29 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span class="gmail-m_-2043645258145408682gmail-m_-9017443736172595418gmaildefault"> </span>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<br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">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?</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">bill w</span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Isn’t it the case, though, that brain structure changes depending on experience. For instance, see:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/london-taxi-memory/" target="_blank">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/london-taxi-memory/</a></div><div><br></div><div>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.)</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyhow, you’re the psychology expert. Am I far off?<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" target="_blank">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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