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Have you considered that women are just not interested in chess, or are generally worse at it than men, so they rage-quit? Hou Yifan, "The Queen of Chess" is r

• _yosefk 10y ago
  The father of the 3 Polgar sisters deliberately pushed them to play chess to prove a point. All 3 got very good, Judith was #10 in the world. This strongly suggests "not interested" is more true of other women than "not that good."
  • pervycreeper 10y ago
    >This strongly suggests Do you mean that that single example constitutes strong evidence of your claim, or merely that it seems to support an opinion which is strongly held?
    • _yosefk 10y ago
      Actually it's a 3 in one example, and the strongest of the 3 players is the strongest woman chess player ever. So I guess that yes, I think it's pretty strong evidence, and no, I don't hold this opinion particularly strongly; I don't really give a shit which group is better at what but it's always fun to watch people foaming at their mouths trying to prove how similar or different groups are when it's obviously false.
    • dogecoinbase 10y ago
      Truly a compelling statement from "pervycreeper".