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Re: Girls in Engineering- Comic that explains it all

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Originally Posted by princessnatalie View Post
Women add creativity to a problem, and that is needed to solve any problem.
You want to avoid this sort of prejudice, which I believe is just as irrational as that you disagree with. I have not noticed than many have any special advantage in solving technical problems, just as I haven't noticed that women are not -- on the whole -- any more creative than men.

In general, overall, with great individual variation that swamps the central tendencies, women in the US seem to use a different approach to problem solving than men, but I haven't noticed that it is any better or worse.

I suggest focusing on the skills, abilities and personalities of individuals more than clumping them into groups. It's how I try to live and it works pretty well. There is nothing wrong to using pattern recognition ("prejudice") to scan your social environment. Humans have developed this to survive. If you think about it, "prejudice" is a subset of pattern-recognition that can keep you alive ("large creatures with sharp teeth could eat me," "hollow trees with no leaves can fall on me," "those strangers with pointy sticks might mean to hurt me," "that old person with bad skin, patchy hair, and no teeth might not be the best person with whom to make a family" and so on), but there is no reason to over-apply this, especially in a work environment. Pattern-recognition generates probabilities, not certainty. If you live by your prejudices, in the sense of "pre-judging" people, you will make a lot of mistakes and limit your experience.
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