***Maths and Girls with Testosterone*** <The study showed that almost all girls who excelled in math at higher levels(a tiny percentage) had a physiological difference with other girls. They had unusually high levels of testosterone. >
Thanks for that information. Now, if they have higher levels of testosterone, maybe they also reached puberty later and also therefore had later brain development. Boys are notoriously late reaching maturity and even in this very thread it's been pointed out to me that I bear a strong resemblance to a 5 year old. Imagine how big my brain and head will be when I finally reach maturity, which should be when I'm about 250 years old if my maths is correct.
The question is, did that study you quote correlate the age of menarche with the girls' results in maths and apostrophes? If it didn't, then it missed what I reckon is a major variable [though IQ is the biggie and I have heard that many women do have a LOT of that IQ stuff]. Their testosterone level might be a poor surrogate for puberty onset.
This will also explain why women have not been as plentiful on these threads in the technology area as males. They know that they lack the technology 'right stuff' to understand CDMA and what's going on. They get handicapped at puberty by the education system then are left dependent on 'gurus' to tell them whether the moving stochastic cup and handle discounted cash flow standard deviation will meet the 30 day moving average of the parabolic Elliot wave and Fourier Bollinger Bands.
I don't mean to be rude, but I bet there are few women reading this who could figure out whether, applying that stochastic analysis, whether Qualcomm will reach $134.15 tomorrow at 3.14 pm and whether there will be 31,415,923 shares traded?
So, did the study mention puberty?
Thanks again and a link would be great.
Mqurice
PS: Not so fast there Uncle Franq <Since it's a no-pay, thankless job, and since Mq already owns unimaginable amounts of Q and the North Island, I'll nominate him. He meets my definition of a Curmudgeon: >
While I do appreciate the compliment, which has made my head far too big for a 5 year old, I should point out that my 160 shares of Mighty Q! do NOT mean I can perform unpaid. [Somebody corrected my arithmetic a while ago when I thought the splits made it 120 shares and told Ramsey he couldn't count - incidentally, Asians can't count because they see the world through rose-coloured wallets. No I am NOT a racist - some of my best friends have all sorts of weird DNA, which they can't help.]
Anyway, I hope Poet, Jim and Jill have seen the light and will try to be nice people now. Maybe gc and others inclined to be nasty, vulgar [polite and fun acknowledgement of gender differences is not vulgar in my book], belligerent and stuff like that will also take it a bit easy. Which includes the 'good guys' who get a bit too territorial and also be nasty when Yellow Canaries fly in.
Would everyone please send checks or cheques to
Mqurice Winn
Box 31415
Eketahuna
Which I believe is somewhere in the Ureweras or maybe it's the Rimutakas. They'll check the package for parcel bombs, toxins, viruses and lose [or loose] change, then will send the rest on to me. I hope. |
