Quoted from HEAD_boss_HOG:It's not sensible to generalize here.
Said, without irony, by a guy that started a thread called "Why Are Men Better Than Women At Pinball?"
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Quoted from HEAD_boss_HOG:look at the workforce in america. there are, as mentioned in this topic, many fields which are dominated by either gender. for reasons which seem evolutionary based on gender and the respective strengths of each of the two.
If the field you're referring to is the NBA then your statement makes sense. If you mean engineering, mathematics, or Mary Kay sales then you haven't sold me. In 1900 a majority of Americans might well have agreed that women were biologically unsuited to be doctors or lawyers, and there were still plenty of scientists providing theoretical backing. This turned out not to be true. So at least to me, "boys are just better at ..." arguments have to be well supported to make it out of the gate.
Quoted from HEAD_boss_HOG:I'm learning more and more about the evolution of men and women, and the respective tendencies, strengths and weaknesses of each, and it is tilting my opinion more towards innate, God given gifts which apply generally to men and women.
Your thought seems to be the very top of competitive pinball will always be dominated by men, even assuming equal participation by women. No one can prove this true or false at the moment, of course, but we're pretty far from having the equal participation setup you'd need to test your theory. And at least to me, it's not so clear what physical characteristics make a great pinball player great, and how closely those correlate with gender. Whereas with basketball, well ...
A final question might be "who gives a shit?" We've established that the best women players at the moment could kick your ass at pinball (and my ass, and most of the dudes on Pinside). So does that mean that these women received more "innate, God-given gifts" of the manly/pinball variety than you or me? And does the fact that the top-ten is all male say anything much about you and me and our respective pinball abilities, just because we share a gender with the champs?
Quoted from phil-lee:I think this is an evolutionary thing, even though I don't believe in evolution.
Well, no one’s going to top that …
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Quoted from TechnicalSteam:there is a whole thread about this thread elsewhere.
You can't say this and then not give us the link ...
Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:DuckDuckGo is your friend.
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