Pioneer Wojtek, was: RE: [lbo-talk] it's inevitable

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Thu May 4 21:06:36 PDT 2006


On Thu, 4 May 2006, Jim Devine wrote:


> If the stereotype is right, women are "multitaskers...." The problem with
> being a multitasker is that one doesn't specialize in a small enough
> number of tasks to learn to do one really well. On the other hand, men are
> more likely to be single-minded (perhaps because they're so often exempted
> from househusbandry/childcare tasks), they can learn to do one task
> (chess-playing or whatever) really well.

That would explain why there are no good woman pianists or violinists :o)

Michael



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