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Subject: Women and Logic
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Date: 5 Dec 88 01:16:56 GMT
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I was very, very interested in the article by Sue McPherson
which described a test-based conclusion that females were
more logical and males were more intuitive.

This matches my personal observations.  I have
consistently found that males tend towards an
intuitive approach in their activities.  They
quite often seem to regard interim steps as tedious
and unnecessary,  and to base their procedure on "hunches".
Overall, they seem to operate in a more 'instinctive' mode.

Females, on the other hand,  seem to operate in a
step-progression mode,  in which each item is regarded
as a logical dependency.  They tend to patternize an
activity,  and to integrate conclusions prior to determining
the next action.  Overall, a more 'logical' mode.

This is, of course, only a personal observation.  Most
of the lore and literature that surrounds me takes
the opposite view.  I do not know whether my observations
are narrow and invalid,  or whether the socialization of
the words  "logical=superior, intuitive=inferior"  may have
caused us to apply these words in a non-scientific manner.

Since this forum addresses the particular subset of
humanity who are involved in computers,  and computers
are uniquely logical in nature,  I would be interested
in reading the views of the other computer-folks on this topic.

 
Jo Duston