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TheoryExplaining male predominance... (self.TheBluePill)

Dat_Chad が 投稿

... in chess.

This may have to do with historical sexist ideas that men are good at most things, unlike women, who are only good at serving men. Fortunately, today, this viewpoint isn't as widespread as it used to be!

Besides historicals reasons that have not educated women in sports (which may still have repercussions today, as many women from those times still live), there may actually be psychological reasons. Perhaps most women weren't actually born for sports... And I don't want to be sexist when I say this—maybe men, in general, actually do prefer these things more than women...

But it's a mystery I doubt we'll really ever understand. This doesn't happen only in chess, but in many other cases. In my opinion, it's an unhappy situation, because I think there should be a roughly equal proportion of men and women in all the aspects of human life. The fact that it doesn't happen, with over 7.000.000.000 people on this planet, is hardly acceptable. But it's what happens...

Males predominate at the top in chess. Almost all grandmasters are male, there never has been a female world champion and only one female, Judit Polgar, ever has reached the top ten in the FIDE rating list (eighth spot in 2005 with a peak rating of 2735).

Chess talent may consist of a mix of ability and personality traits at which males on average may excel or there may be more males at the top extreme due to greater male variability. These factors may include high IQ (to learn chess material quickly and to understand complex concepts such as opposite colored bishops endgame and tactically unbalanced position), and spatial ability, ability to concentrate, and competitiveness. Stars in chess and in physical sports often have the famed “killer instinct”, the desire to win at all costs.

Also, government scientist Dr. Yamata says female brain is small like squirrel. Um... Check-mate, feminists?

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[–]OmLiLiArchangel Chaddius 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Dr. Yamata says female brain is small like squirrel

Female's do not have brains. Their long hair all connects them to a hivemind called The Mother Hamster that makes all decisions for them.

[–]Dat_Chad[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thanks for the mansplanation

[–]BiggerDthanYou 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't know if it's still like that, but when I was in Kindergarten and the first years of school there was a huge split between boys and girls. They didn't like each other and thus played different gender-specific games.

Boys played with Lego and joined the chess club, girls played with dolls and joined knitting and housework classes.

You couldn't play with the toys of the other gender, because others would call you out on it and I think this relict of historical sexist ideas is still holding people back from reaching their full potential.

The few women that I met in IT all had fathers that gave them Lego and showed them how to work with a computer from a young age. This is something that is normal for boys.

I really think that the first few years of your development have a huge influence on your whole life.

Just like the killer instinct. The games that boys play are usually more competitive and have a clear winner, while games for women tend to be more cooperative and played for fun and not winning. You know just like fathers will take their boys out in the garden to play some ball games, but won't take his daughter along because ball games are not for women.

There are women with an killer instinct out there, but they usually had several brothers or many male friends and played competitive games from a young age.

[–]girlCtrl-Cgirl interrupt 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't think you can read anything into this when--well, for example, in physical sports? Huge numbers of both boys and girls in the US participate in physical sports. I don't think that girls should be excluded from playing football, but I'm fine with the fact that women generally won't be NFL competitive. But vanishingly small numbers of kids in the US learn to play chess. I have more than enough brain to play chess--maybe not world-competitive, but well. But why would I? I don't think it's fun. I have both better mental challenges to engage with, and better games.

It's like if you analyzed which races or genders do better at the spelling bee. Most kids don't even attempt to seriously compete, so you can't say that the winners actually represent the best spellers of all US children; they represent the best spellers of US children who participate in the spelling bee. It's still an achievement, but it's not as much of one as if you were talking about an activity where there was broader interest. You could ask the question of why girls tend to not learn to play chess, but if girls tend to not learn to play chess, of course girls tend not to be represented in elite chess players.