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What you're describing is a "proof of work" system, such as gridcoin. Men and women are not intrinsically different in the way you imply they are. That is cult

What you're describing is a "proof of work" system, such as gridcoin. Men and women are not intrinsically different in the way you imply they are. That is culturally constructed.

phoinix 6y ago
I didn't know about gridcoin. Thanks for that. However when i play chess the moment i smell that my opponent is female i immediately start playing more aggressively, and my opponent starts backs down. The statistics of the top chess players do prove me right. I have tried it myself many times. Against female players i don't try to play the objectively best move like usual, i consciously try to make the female player be afraid of their position and they lose by themselves.
- andrewzah 6y ago
  That sounds like a personal problem, and not really gender related. You should ask yourself why you're having difficulties treating people the same especially in a game.
  - phoinix 6y ago
    Actually the statistics of the top players in every country or globally prove me right. Everyone does that. Of the top 100 players globally only one is woman. Men are smarter than women in general, but not that smarter. You can argue all day about the opposite, or downvote all you want, statistics proves me right. Reality is not something we hope for the santa claus to give it to us. Reality is what it is.
    - andrewzah 6y ago
      Statistics are not inherently perfect. They completely ignore things like the environment, hostility towards women in the chess world, and do so on. Correlation is not causation and all that. The reality is that orders of magnitude more men play chess than women do. Not that men are inherently smarter. As more women play chess, we'll see a more even distribution of rankings.
    - dang 6y ago
      That's beyond the pale, you can't do this here, and I've banned the account. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26916805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26916805.
- Jabbles 6y ago
  The statistics of the top chess players proves you wrong. https://en.chessbase.com/post/what-gender-gap-in-chess https://en.chessbase.com/post/what-gender-gap-in-chess
  - phoinix 6y ago
    Awesome article. I may be indeed wrong. It requires further research.
    - phoinix 6y ago
      I counted the women on the top 100 of Greece, it is only 3 women. India is a strange country to get statistics about. Women participation in Greece is double that of India for sure (the first country in the world to introduce woman voting), so 3% instead of the normal 12% someone would expect. Women underperform 4 times than men. A huge percentage. Women underperform always in high risk, high reward scenarios. Jordan Peterson have made many statistical researches in subjects like that. I was not wrong at last. But the article is very good.
- jgwil2 6y ago
  Play the board, not the opponent.
- stefanmichael 6y ago
  This is completely constructed in your mind. If you tried this vs any woman rated 100 points higher than you or more, this would be a death sentence. It has nothing to do with gender. Avoiding the objectively best move just means you're making inaccuracies and blunders, giving the game away for free. Nobody above 1200 rating is going to be "afraid of their position" that is not a thing. Below 1200 rating, there may be people like that due to inexperience, but it would be across both genders IF it existed at all which I'm completely unconvinced of.
jonfw 6y ago
We're far from knowing enough about the brain to say anything as conclusive as that. We do know enough to say that there are some intrinsic differences- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_differences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_difference...
- foobarbecue 6y ago
  Yes, there are some intrinsic differences, but not the ones phoinix implied. He went on to say that men are simply smarter than women, and so dang banned him. dang has got to be the best moderator I have ever seen.

What you're describing is a "proof of work" system, such as gridcoin. Men and women are not intrinsically different in the way you imply they are. That is culturally constructed.

phoinix 6y ago

I didn't know about gridcoin. Thanks for that. However when i play chess the moment i smell that my opponent is female i immediately start playing more aggressively, and my opponent starts backs down. The statistics of the top chess players do prove me right. I have tried it myself many times. Against female players i don't try to play the objectively best move like usual, i consciously try to make the female player be afraid of their position and they lose by themselves.

andrewzah 6y ago
That sounds like a personal problem, and not really gender related. You should ask yourself why you're having difficulties treating people the same especially in a game.
- phoinix 6y ago
  Actually the statistics of the top players in every country or globally prove me right. Everyone does that. Of the top 100 players globally only one is woman. Men are smarter than women in general, but not that smarter. You can argue all day about the opposite, or downvote all you want, statistics proves me right. Reality is not something we hope for the santa claus to give it to us. Reality is what it is.
  - andrewzah 6y ago
    Statistics are not inherently perfect. They completely ignore things like the environment, hostility towards women in the chess world, and do so on. Correlation is not causation and all that. The reality is that orders of magnitude more men play chess than women do. Not that men are inherently smarter. As more women play chess, we'll see a more even distribution of rankings.
  - dang 6y ago
    That's beyond the pale, you can't do this here, and I've banned the account. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26916805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26916805.
Jabbles 6y ago
The statistics of the top chess players proves you wrong. https://en.chessbase.com/post/what-gender-gap-in-chess https://en.chessbase.com/post/what-gender-gap-in-chess
- phoinix 6y ago
  Awesome article. I may be indeed wrong. It requires further research.
  - phoinix 6y ago
    I counted the women on the top 100 of Greece, it is only 3 women. India is a strange country to get statistics about. Women participation in Greece is double that of India for sure (the first country in the world to introduce woman voting), so 3% instead of the normal 12% someone would expect. Women underperform 4 times than men. A huge percentage. Women underperform always in high risk, high reward scenarios. Jordan Peterson have made many statistical researches in subjects like that. I was not wrong at last. But the article is very good.
jgwil2 6y ago
Play the board, not the opponent.
stefanmichael 6y ago
This is completely constructed in your mind. If you tried this vs any woman rated 100 points higher than you or more, this would be a death sentence. It has nothing to do with gender. Avoiding the objectively best move just means you're making inaccuracies and blunders, giving the game away for free. Nobody above 1200 rating is going to be "afraid of their position" that is not a thing. Below 1200 rating, there may be people like that due to inexperience, but it would be across both genders IF it existed at all which I'm completely unconvinced of.

jonfw 6y ago

We're far from knowing enough about the brain to say anything as conclusive as that. We do know enough to say that there are some intrinsic differences- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_differences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_difference...

foobarbecue 6y ago
Yes, there are some intrinsic differences, but not the ones phoinix implied. He went on to say that men are simply smarter than women, and so dang banned him. dang has got to be the best moderator I have ever seen.