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To: neolib who wrote (171729)10/3/2005 6:29:51 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Neo, you beat me to it. I was thinking about the male/female thing and maturity and last night remembered that sex is determined AFTER the baby's development is well under way and was going to bring it up as more evidence that the early maturing of female brains is more to do with lack of maths talent than simply being female is the cause.

So, the DNA is fixed at conception and the gender is an afterthought. But how then does the Y chromosome get into the act? I thought the Y chromosome was a genetic thing, handed down from father to son and is part of the baby's DNA. I suppose I should do some reading about genetics and and chromosomes and stuff.

But if the Y chromosome is handed down, it must get added in after the baby decides to be a male. Much like random apostrophe's get added in for some reason: <All embryo's start life as females.>

Maths is a language used to describe reality and females are reputed to be just fine at language, which is learned BEFORE puberty. So I don't see why females should be any less talented at one language than another.

When learning foreign languages, people who start 3 years AFTER puberty have a lot more trouble than people who start 2 years BEFORE puberty. Language teachers know that an early start is a good start.

Here's a prediction to test my theory: females who start learning a foreign language at age 13 do worse than boys who start learning at age 13 [with equal verbal intelligence, which can be tested] and who give it equal effort.

<The problem is that "IQ" is a little slippery in itself. It could be defined as the brightest math ability, the best chess player, the most successful in business. >

One can play with words and define words to mean what you want them to mean. But there are intelligence researchers who in fact can measure intelligence, and it's not some capricious unquantifiable attribute. It's quantifiable, like height and weight.

Mqurice
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