Interesting Links for 03-12-2013

[andrewducker]

• The 10 Worst Product Names in PC History
  (tags: computers names marketing )
• Toast sandwich - why was I not previously aware of this?
  (tags: food bread )
• If I didn't already have a Nexus 5 I'd be very tempted by the Moto G - £135 is dirt cheap!
  (tags: mobile_phones android )
• A sensible Assisted Suicide act is about to be put before the Scottish

Comments

[xenophanean]

Wonder if the differences in men and women's brains are purely natural, or influenced by roles played in society?

[andrewducker]

I'd be astounded if it wasn't both.

There's going to be a bunch of self-reinforcing systems in play here, where hormones influence different people in different ways, and the mass of people moving in one direction carries individuals with it, and that then self-perpetuates.

(And we know that what you do influences your brain structure)

[xenophanean]

It's an important question. If male/female brains just *are* wired in certain ways, it could validly be used as an excuse for why certain jobs have more of one or other of the genders. If not, that reasoning is circular.

[andrewducker]

I agree that it's an imporyant question.

Just not one that anyone has an answer to, or much prospect of finding one in the near future.

[xenophanean]

Hmm, you could test equal numbers of men/women in extreme "masculine" or "feminine" ability jobs, and see if the brain types match with the jobs, or the genders.

Figuring out the correlation/causation here is going to be a complete bastard though. It'd require long term studies.