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Re: Barbie is Right! (was: Mattel on women)

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From: Andrew William Jackson
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 01:38
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In article <ulrich02976920924161142@galki.toppoint.de> ulrich@galki.toppoint.de (Ulrich Gall) writes:
>ringo@icad.com (Amy Gorin) writes:
>>
>>
>> "allowance").  Men are not expected to be better than women
>> at math -- if anything, the opposite is true.
>                          --------------------- Why ???
>
>Your posting shows that obviously, this is dependent on the culture the
>men/women live in. In the US and probably even more in Europe, men are
>generally more interested in science than women. Thus, they are
>_on_the_average_ better at math. Not because men are smarter, but because the
>culture these men live in makes them be more interested in science than women.
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>
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>Ulrich Gall, Seebrooksberg 2, W-2300 Klausdorf, Germany
>Tel.: +49-431-790292, EMail: ulrich@galki.toppoint.de




Men are inherently better at math than women are.  Culture is not a force
unto itself but a reflection of our fundimental nature.
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