People Versus Things I am not surprised that there is a preference between men and women, but I am surprised how strong it is. More freedom equals more revealed preference rather than constrained preference. In poor countries both sexes are under pressure to choose whatever pays more. Not so in developed societies.
Asch's Moral Conformity effect also holds when the companions are online. It worked for half the dilemmas, anyway. It is easier to go along with the group.
TL:DR Will AI Solve Medicine? Is AI saving us any time if we have to read about it so much? The little I did read was interesting. It sould be a great podcast if you are taking a five-hour round trip anytime soon.
Bird Dog is back from France and wherever, so Maggie's Farm is back up.
I don't read books anymore. I'm in two book clubs and have to force myself to read things that should interest me. I am reading Hidden Gospels by Philip Jenkins and loving it each time I pick it up - which is seldom. I am not who I was. Part of it is falling asleep. Most of it is that I want summarised information, which is now available in abundance.
The Psmiths review John McWhorter's Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, which I read years ago and liked. It is thorough enough that it is actually a summary of the book - in case you also prefer that now. But she does give some outside information as well, such as Have I mentioned that John McWhorter is a language contact specialist? If you move in the right circles, his theories about creoles are more contentious than his thoughts on affirmative action. Fun to know.
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Asch's moral conformity commentary is hidden behind the conformity of 'accepting all cookies' or pretending to defy the conformity by being given the choice of selecting which ones to conform to.
All the research sites do that. It no longer makes me nervous, though it does annoy me
"Part of it is falling asleep" I found Jenkin's style a bit heavy
People vs Things...think about lawyers who work mostly with documents, musicians who play instruments, people who like knitting & sewing...how do these fit into the people vs things categorization?
Lawyers work mostly with other people as do most musicians. I think that the size and flexibility of the material used might be a better dividing point between preferences of men and women.
I think those can usually be answered using just one level deeper of analysis. Medical researchers, surgeons, radiologists - they work more with things. Family physicians and psychiatrists work more with people. Auto mechanics work with machines - except the owner needs to have people skills. And if you look at the chart, many things are mixed.
Thank you.
You're not wrong, but the deeper one delves into the analysis, the murkier it gets - and that's not the point. Rather, it is the male that sees the larger, heavier things to bring down to size... the oak tree that can be made into a house. The female sees smaller things that can be built into a larger thing... reeds woven into a basket. Males and females are different and see things differently. It's a generalization. Of course there are individual differences. Female surgeons and radiologists. There are also blendings of the expected talents of each. Medical researchers work with very tiny things whether male or female.
In general, I still think that size and flexibility of the material is a handy dividing point between male and female thinking. "In general" doesn't cover every depth of analysis or exception by definition.
Boxers work with people too.
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