Ventures of an ex indie game developer

Bitch in heat

Had a heated discussion yesterday with an dumb, über-convinced feminist who claimed that men and women are born tabula rasa, while I made the statement that for instance interests are pre-disposed by our hormones, and that would be the reason that for instance few women in the west (where interest is key) work in IT. Of course I didn't mean anything on an individual level, but I was talking about an actual distance d between the bell curves. She claimed there is none.


So today I did some studying and found that already Darwin knew many mental traits were inherited by animals:
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses, and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good temper, &c., are certainly transmitted. With man we see similar facts in almost every family; and we now know through the admirable labours of Mr. Galton10 that genius, which implies a wonderfully complex combination of high faculties, tends to be inherited; and, on the other hand, it is too certain that insanity and deteriorated mental powers likewise run in the same families.
Home free! But wait... Cattell and Eysenck found that:
One of the first of these twin studies measured 800 pairs of twins, studied numerous personality traits, and determined that identical twins are most similar in their general abilities. Personality similarities were found to be less related for self-concepts, goals, and interests.
Shit! I hate it when I'm dumber than dumb, über-convinced feminists! I can only hope there's a small d in that "less related" part of the interests above. What the heck, I'll go all in and say there is a d, and I'm sure of it. And even though I've never been, I belive the reason that Malaysia has about half female IT workers has nothing to do with personal interest, it has to do with landing a job.

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