Quite right ACF and that's what keeps the Darwin Award applicants lining up. Notice that they are almost all male. <While obliviously optimistic semi-competence can lead to a kind of clueless free-for-all (otherwise known as a cl*****f**k), at least in this scenario the truly competent get to move the ball forward.>
Keep in mind that luck also is a large component of DNA selection. DNA development is mostly a random event with statistical success rather than being designed and engineered for a predicted context, contrary to what the superstitious would have us believe.
That's why women can't invent things. Count the patents issued to women and especially patents which actually do something seriously useful. Women are risk averse, other than those out in the tiny third standard deviation group - and they won't be successfully raising children, so are automatically in for Darwin Awards [like the young woman who was killed zooming down the steepest street in NZ, with a young male companion, in an intoxicated state, in a wheely bin [our domestic rubbish bins].
There's no reason for both men and women to be Darwin Award candidates - there's never a shortage of males to go around so they have to compete for females and take chances. Females hang out and select from the better of the ones left over after nature has done its work. Which is, of course, still not much of a choice for them. Which explains why male movie stars and other idols are so popular. Nature needs to do a LOT more natural selection before women will be happy with what's on offer.
To help the poor things, males also get to have another 3 years of brain experience during the growth phase. Females race to reproductive readiness almost before they have counted off their fingers and thumbs, which means their brains are fully grown before they've experienced all that much. Which explains their inability in maths and science and, of course, language. They don't get the hardwiring development which males get during the learning phase for maths, second languages and science.
A brain fully grown by 11 is quite different from one which isn't fully grown until 17 [the difference between early females and late males]. 6 years is a LOT of neuron wiring and a lot of experience. Since it's in the teenage years when maths, science and second languages are learned, females are bound to have a harder time of it.
Since females are mathematically challenged, readers will no doubt think "Hey, I know some really mathematically wizardly women, so the theory is a load of nonsense". So will ignorant males.
However the sage sees that women who intend to be linguistically skillful and mathematically spectacular should be taught the stuff at a younger age than males and the time available to teach is greatly reduced so a LOT of teaching will be needed. 3 years between ages 1 and 10 is 30% of the time [give or take and error correction or two]. That's a third of their life.
Contrary to the now pandemic theory that males and females are the same, nature has decreed, not surprisingly, that they aren't. Males still, for the most part, are able to spot the difference and solicit the sexual attentions of the right gender. They continue to get patents issued and win Darwin Awards in great numbers. Women continue to sort the wheat from the chaff. Judging from the reproduction rate around the world, they think there is a LOT of chaff.
Notice for example, how Cobalt Blue didn't understand how the photovoltaic wings kept the Globalstar satellites up and steer the satellites in a circle around the world. But she has excellent verbal skills and conceptualisation of social stuff and can learn and analyse all sorts of things. We old dogs can indeed learn variations on old tricks. But we can't learn new tricks. After puberty, we are in the groove and doomed to repeat the same old tune, with minor variations. We can't play a CD ROM on our 78 rpm steel needle device. We listen to rap and can't hear what's going on and wouldn't like it if we could. We certainly can't play it; though I consider my versions are artistic improvements on the genre [exponents disagree].
For example, learning languages and losing an accent are notoriously difficult after puberty. We just can't make the right sounds. Up to puberty and especially in younger years, we learn and never forget, in seconds. New words tumble into our brains like iron filings to a magnet. Not all brains of course - some are weakly magnetic.
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PS: C'mon CB, life's a giggle and the comments are a compliment - it's fun to find something to slip past you. |
