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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (44899)	1/17/2004 10:54:48 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 74559

Well grubby little me... 44900... a biggy looms..

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (44899)	1/18/2004 3:42:43 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

KC, the practical import is that it would be silly to seek gender balance in a company doing mathematics for a living, or physics, or lots of other things. Apart from the cultural bias against 'guy stuff' by females, there is the outright statistical problem of finding enough females even if they were all trying to do maths as much as males. Same for enforced racial balance, where similar statistics work against finding negro Americans who are great mathematicians. It's ridiculous to do other than leave staff selection to willing buyers and sellers to decide who they want to employ and who they want to work for. So, first of all, the practical import is keep legislators' silly hands off employer's decisions on who to employ. Secondly, female education needs a revamp so they are given maths and other things to do at a younger age while their brains are still in child development mode, rather than waiting until they are too old to really get to grips with the subjects. Similarly, people should learn to drive and do other things at a younger age. There is an increasing tendency to make learning to drive around 18 or maybe older in some places. It used to be age 15 in NZ. People learn better younger, for most things anyway. Overall, eduation should be individually tailored. Crowds of children shouldn't be dumped in age groups as though all are clones. Actually, the jury isn't still out. I'm just giving the "why" on the gender skewing. I don't believe it's due to hormones, females having smaller brains, or even cultural bias against maths by females [which I think follows the bad education rather than females inherently disliking maths - if anything maths should be a thing females like, maths being almost a sissy subject]. Re politically correct, yes, I was trying to razz you up a bit. Most people are scared of being accused of being sexist, racist etc so they go onto autopilot when the shibboleths and slogans are challenged. They refuse to think. It's always the same when conventional thinking is challenged. Re your 3], we've also found long lost friends and the world has dramatically shrunk. It's great. People are increasingly never lost. Mqurice