/sci/ - Science & Math

Do you really think it was just sheer-raw-gender-granted intelligence that makes better mathematicians out of men? That's so fucking funny. Do you really think that the reason people get good thing is just some inherent gift in their brain structure and chemistry? Have you never become good at anything in your life?

It is interest. It is interest in a subject matter which drives a person's brain to become so incredible at it. Learning math, and creating new mathematical theorems is a product of, yes, IQ, that raw and timeless pattern recognition skill, but also energy spent on it. You really think that a 21 year old with 160 IQ who just happened to never be interested in math, and therefore never learned even calculus would score better on a graduate level math exam than a 40 year old man with 140 IQ that is intensely interested in math, and has studied it intensely, for countless hours, because he just loves it so much, and has a PhD?

Of course the 160 IQ man wouldn't score as well, he wouldn't even be able to begin, he wouldn't have those centuries of theorems stored up, processed, and integrated, to apply to the problems put before him.

Men have been better at math, because they have been more interested in it. More of the intelligent men get sucked into it, and more men put more energy into it. It's not that their manly essence makes them super good at doing numbers. Why are they more interested? Simple. Autism.

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