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To: Ilaine who wrote (69677)	12/16/2010 7:47:29 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) of 217862

CB, it occurred to me that maybe you were making the mistake of thinking my theory claims ALL females can't read maps. Since you are innumerate, I can see you'd make that common statistical and probabilistic mistake. A woman could be the world champion map reading ace by far, no map rotation required and that would not disprove or falsify my theory. To help you with the numbers game in a way you'll easily understand, men are taller than women. That doesn't mean ALL men are taller than ALL women or even that the tallest person in the world can't be a woman. There are swarms of men who are shorter than most women. That fact is entirely consistent with my theory on map reading. If you replace "tall" with "map reading" you will get the point. You being a 2.3 metre tall world champion map reading woman [even if you could do maths] would not disprove my theory. That's a common mistake. Already a few people have made the comment "But I know a smart woman who can give change at the supermarket and my daughter is pretty good on arithmetic too. And heck, what about Marie Curie?" as though any of that has anything to do with the situation. Being highly logical, and far more so than most males, you should be able to understand that, even without numeracy. Linguists know that teaching people foreign languages after puberty becomes vastly more difficult than before puberty. Once people are into their 20s when they learn a new language, they don't lose their accents even after decades of living in a foreign language. Learning maths is a like learning a language. Best to get the foundations in place before puberty. Mqurice

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