Re: UKNM: Search Engines digression

[Stefan Magdalinski]

Felix Velarde wrote:

> 

> 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.


I'm trying to find a way in which the conclusion of this comment is

related to the premise, if not in downright contradiction of it. guff,

gov.


stefan 


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