We tend to major in one of these categories and minor in another, neglecting the third. I am an ideas and people person - or the other way around. I am less interested in things and less good with them.
That this has a heritable component is hardly surprising: we tend to go into fields we are good at. A northern European study looks at choice of fields by individuals. Genetic Associations with Educational Fields. Yes there is a sex difference, but that is not the only thing happening.
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Eleanor Roosevelt supposedly said "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people"
Which wouldn't have been very conplimentary to her husband, because a successful political leader surely must spend plenty of time discussing events and people.
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