From: tsoon (tsoon@mail.usyd.edu.au)
Date: Mon Aug 10 1998 - 05:51:48 MDT
I agree some of the comments on this list have been a bit silly lately.
But buried beneath the dross there are some legitimate questions about M-F
psychology.
I remember reading somewhere that a survey of libertarians found most of
them are INTJ or INTP
(I'm INTP myself). It seems evident to me that as rare as these 2 types are
in the general
population they are rarer still among the female population and if there is
correlation between holding
libertarian ideas and holding extropian ideas. ...
Women are probably more likely to be extroverted than men (evolution seems
to have predisposed
women to be more 'social beings' hence the predilection for 'gossip' - I am
not being
derogatory about this- 'gossip' obviously served a useful function in the
sexual division of labour
in primeval times)
Women are probably more likely to be feelers than thinkers (again I am not
saying one is
superior to the other - it takes complementary strategies to propagate the
species)
Women are probably more level-headed than men ( S over N), less likely to be
convinced by solely abstract demonstrations of truth and falsity- hence the
dominance of men
in professions like maths and physics.
Of course, there are also those correlations between math/physics ability
and gender.
Obviously all these traits also correlate negatively with people who are
more likely to be
extropians or intellectual activists in general
(think - how typical was Ayn Rand of the average female- the exception
that proves the rule),
Once again let me emphasise I am not trying to spread sexist innuendo here.
Anyone who
thinks I am is himself/herself guilty of thinking that 'feminine' qualities
are inferior to or less
important than masculine qualities.
Jason Soon
VISIT my web page at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/2564
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'He who understands baboon would do more towards
metaphysics than Locke.'
~Charles Darwin
'Intelligent control appears as uncontrol or freedom ...
Unintelligent control appears as external domination'
~Lao Tzu (6th century BC)
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