Swimmer963 comments on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Swimmer963 27 November 2012 10:57:11AM 2 points [-]

This seems to fit the pattern of "men are combative, women are nurturing",

I would read it more as "men like to model situations, women like to model people." This may be a stereotype, but I've noticed it to be anecdotally true. Men, when spending time together socially, tend to talk more about sports and politics than women do; women spend more time talking about other people (i.e. gossip) and analyzing their motivations. Fighting elves is a situation; you don't have to try to understand the elves' motivations and 'drama' in order to fight them.

Comment author: Randy_M 27 November 2012 09:40:55PM 1 point [-]

"This may be a stereotype, but I've noticed it to be anecdotally true." "but" What do you think sterotypes are? Generally they tend to be statements that are true 30-90% of the time, which should provide plenty of room for confirming annecdotes.