Heh. Qualify this under "crazy ideas". Chinese tech companies are motivating programmers by hiring cheerleaders. It would be interesting to know if this increases productivity. Do cheerleaders help improve results sports teams?
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- most people want to socialize with the opposite sex, and are unhappy (and hence unproductive) if they can’t;
- the conscious reasons for wanting to socialize with the opposite sex often have nothing to do with “fluid exchange” (to use the John Nash character’s phrase from A Beautiful Mind),
- let he (or she) who is without subconscious Darwinian motivations cast the first stone,
- human beings didn’t evolve to live their lives in an 85%-male environment,
- by the Pigeonhole Principle, not every straight male will be as lucky as I was to find a girlfrien
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