re: Men vs. Women: Chess

Thanks. Had to be a reason though neither got into it.

I would also suspect that the bell curve for dispassionate, pure strategic thinking for men is centered around a larger mean than for women (which seems to be a valuable evolved trait if you need to get the warriors in your tribe to take the resources of another), just as I suspect the bell curve for empathetic, compassionate thinking for women is centered around a larger mean than for men (which seems to be a valuable evolved trait if you want to successfully raise an infant into adulthood).

I might be wrong, but the hypothesis feels like it at least has internal logic to it. So if some of those evolved traits filter into making men better, at the extremes, than women at this one, small, meaningless game, then I can’t imagine why anyone would ever have a problem with it.

So of course, some nutjob will inevitably call the whole sport sexist