Re: UKNM: Search Engines digression

[Felix Velarde]

On 1/10/98 I read:


>

steve mynott <stevetightrope [dot] demon [dot] co [dot] uk>

>

>    humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. they 

>learn - when

>they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.  -- robert 

>heinlein


Heinlein rarely included women in his philosophical considerations 

(save as characters) - according to many studies (including one by 

Cullen in 1994) women do tend to learn from others' experience, 

whereas men are too competitive (or, according to my wife, dumb). 

Something that came up when we were looking into this subject was 

that males tend to prefer a single path on which they can win, and 

females prefer to have the opportunity to succeed by a variety of 

means. Which is maybe why, broadly speaking, females (especially 

children) prefer one-to-one communications online while males prefer 

open forum.


Still digressing, but at least there's a bit of net marketing in 

there somewhere!


Felix Velarde


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