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It is a variety of an old poet's way of saying, "she completes me". It is an old literature trick, Shakespeare uses it, of taking two parts that make up a whole and using the combination of them to show parity and harmony.
For grammar fiends you should look up the extended members of the metaphor family. It is somewhere between a metaphor and a synecdoche...
For grammar fiends you should look up the extended members of the metaphor family. It is somewhere between a metaphor and a synecdoche...
Ahh this way...was kinda disoriented by 'breathes'...thanks!
So it's not an old hack songwriters' way of trying to give the fat dancer from take that a bit of credibility then ?
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in this case, possibly.
i thought that Barlow should get him back in the band and make him take the Bez role...
i thought that Barlow should get him back in the band and make him take the Bez role...
Be very very careful what you wish for - you might just have added 5 years of longevity to that particular mediocrity juggernaut...
And speaking of crimes against songwriting - is it my imagination or is the melody for the first line in lady gagas song about drinking too much the same as the first line of sunday bloody sunday by U2 ?
You've heard it before too! I thought I was the only one...
If someone could help me a little bit with proofreading this one, I would be grateful. It's still some kind of draft version, there are going to be serious changes in order, and I will re-write the beginning a little bit.
Gender differences in learning. Causes and consequences.
Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyzes the phenomenon of gender. Those studies are quite important, because the sex of a particular person affects his, or her, way of thinking, behaviour, intellectual abilities and many other things. Since the beginning of their life children are treated and raised up in different ways, according to their sex. Our gender has an effect on the way that we are perceived by other people. In one of the surveys 75% of questioned agreed that men and women differ on more than forty aspects of behaviour, such as aggression, independence, sensibility, objectiveness. Children between 10 and 18 months spend more time on looking on the pictures of the same sex, than on the pictures of the other sex, which leads to an assumption that discriminating gender comes naturally. Gender studies have quite an interesting history, as the differences between sexes were stated even centuries ago, although those ‘studies’ were rather embarrassing. One of the theories, suggested in the second part of 19th century, said that the intellectual development of women should be limited in order to save their energy for reproductive functions. Too much thinking was supposed to make them infertile. To explain the general level of ideas back then it is enough to quote one of Herbert Spencers’ sentences: ‘Most of the flat-chested girls who survive their high-pressure education are incompetent to bear a well developed infant and to supply that infant with natural food’.
Are men more intelligent than men? Until recently the answer was quite obvious. It was no sooner than a century ago when the attempt to check the validity of this theory was made. It might be understandable when we consider the slight contribution of women to the intellectual life in previous centuries. We should not also forget, that most of the mental jobs were carried out by men. There was also no available scientific method of checking the intelligence. The only way was the measurement of the size, and weight of the brain, and those owned by men were actually bigger, and heavier. But the connection between the size of the brain size and the intelligence that it was ‘carrying’ was proven wrong. The objectivity of the scientists was also not in favour of their studies credibility. In the 1870s they claimed that men were more intelligent because of having bigger frontal lobes. At the end of the century they have suddenly changed their minds, and decided that the parts responsible for intellectual activities were parietal loves which, surprisingly, were also found larger in men, even though 30 years earlier women were claimed to be the parietal types!
Even though intelligence quotient tests are far from being ideal, they are still the best available way of measuring person’s intellectual capabilities. The IQ test was introduced in year 1905 but it took time until it became subjective. In the beginnings the scientists believed that there were no sex differences concerning intelligence, which resulted in discarding test items that were constantly scored better by particular sex. Basing on the IQ test results we can fearlessly state that men are not more intelligent than women. The overall score of an average man is indistinguishable of an average woman’s one. However, there is a hypothesis that men score top and bottom of the rank, while female scores are usually in the middle. It might lead to a conclusion that there are more brilliant males than females, but it is the same when we talk about dull people. The credibility of this hypothesis might be undermined by the fact that two highest scores that have been achieved in the USA were both obtained by women. Still, there probably is a difference between men and women in the type of intelligence that they have. It has been spotted that females do better than males on the sections of IQ tests requiring verbal item skills, while they were worse at the visual-spatial items. This might be the cause of similar average scores of both genders as those two sorts of items come in a roughly equal number in most tests. Of course, it should not be considered as an important factor in hiring a new employee, because even if one of the sexes does better at a particular type of questions does not mean that a specific man will be better in it than a specific woman, or the other way round. We cannot predict anything on the basis of his, or her, sex. Nevertheless, the biological predispositions caused by the fact that most males are visual-spatial types can be easily seen in practice. Shortly speaking, it is the reason why boys do worse than girls when it comes to reading. Boys are more likely to have problems with it, although there is a theory that it is connected with motivation – boys are more diligent readers when they are interested in the subject of what they are reading, while girls do equally well whether interested or not in the subject. It can be also connected with the fact that young males are impulsive, while their peer females are rather reflective. There is yet another side effect of males being worse with verbal items – adult men are eight times more likely than women to suffer from stammering. It might be a sign of general male deficiency at language aspects, but as studies revealed it is rather unlikely to be true. One of the researches shows that boys are superior at verbal analogy tests. There are although some concerns about credibility of these studies, as there are ten times more boys with severe dyslexia than girls, which prevent them from taking part in written exams. If they were able to take part in those studies, then a clear advantage of girls would have appeared.
As I have written before, despite being weaker at verbal items, men do definitely better than women when a task requires using visual-spatial abilities. It might be a reason why men are more present in such professions and activities like science, engineering, architecture, surgery, watch making, playing chess, cricket, baseball or painting. In fact, how many female painters can one recall from the top of his, or her, head? There are several proofs that men do better in activities requiring good visual-spatial skills. For example at adolescence, boys constantly get higher scores on physic tests, but only on those questions which involve good spatial-visual skills. As for verbal questions, girls are as good, or sometimes even better, as boys. The fact that physic tests consist mainly of visual-spatial questions makes girls situation harder than boys, and it means that physic might be a gender-biased subject, as well as maths where those skills are needed in geometry. The question appears why is it so? It might be a side effect of prehistoric duties of males and females. Men had to hunt down animals, what required good visual-spatial abilities, for example to hold the weapon properly, and it is the same situation with producing tools and weapons. Female functions, on the other hand, were mainly to raise up children which was an activity requiring mainly verbal skills. The best at ‘their skills’ men and women were most likely to survive and pass on their genes, which might have made men and women develop different intellectual abilities, while forsaking the other ones. There is also a genetic theory concerning spatial-visual ability [..]. There is one, quite convincing, argument that makes this theory credible. The studies of this ability show that there are twice more men with superior visual-spatial ability than women, and it is a very supportive finding as only half of the girls with proper visual-spatial gene on their maternal X chromosome will have a matching paternal X chromosome, while all boys with the proper X chromosome will be superior in visual-spatial ability. It is interesting that this specificity of people can be also found in rats. Male rats are faster in learning the quickest way through a maze in order to reach food. Another very fascinating and important fact is that the difference between the sexes in countries where women have a acquiescent role in the society, like in India, is very visible, when in other societies, like Eskimos, there is no difference. It might mean that because of the strong need of visual-spatial skill for every Eskimo, despite their gender, the natural selections has excluded those who lacked this skill. It has also been proven that both verbal and visual-spatial abilities can be improved with a proper training. So the fact that somebody is verbally or spatial-visually handicapped does not mean that he or she should not try to improve at it, and just excuse oneself by the gender disadvantage.
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Gender differences in learning. Causes and consequences.
Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyzes the phenomenon of gender. Those studies are quite important, because the sex of a particular person affects his, or her, way of thinking, behaviour, intellectual abilities and many other things. Since the beginning of their life children are treated and raised up in different ways, according to their sex. Our gender has an effect on the way that we are perceived by other people. In one of the surveys 75% of questioned agreed that men and women differ on more than forty aspects of behaviour, such as aggression, independence, sensibility, objectiveness. Children between 10 and 18 months spend more time on looking on the pictures of the same sex, than on the pictures of the other sex, which leads to an assumption that discriminating gender comes naturally. Gender studies have quite an interesting history, as the differences between sexes were stated even centuries ago, although those ‘studies’ were rather embarrassing. One of the theories, suggested in the second part of 19th century, said that the intellectual development of women should be limited in order to save their energy for reproductive functions. Too much thinking was supposed to make them infertile. To explain the general level of ideas back then it is enough to quote one of Herbert Spencers’ sentences: ‘Most of the flat-chested girls who survive their high-pressure education are incompetent to bear a well developed infant and to supply that infant with natural food’.
Are men more intelligent than men? Until recently the answer was quite obvious. It was no sooner than a century ago when the attempt to check the validity of this theory was made. It might be understandable when we consider the slight contribution of women to the intellectual life in previous centuries. We should not also forget, that most of the mental jobs were carried out by men. There was also no available scientific method of checking the intelligence. The only way was the measurement of the size, and weight of the brain, and those owned by men were actually bigger, and heavier. But the connection between the size of the brain size and the intelligence that it was ‘carrying’ was proven wrong. The objectivity of the scientists was also not in favour of their studies credibility. In the 1870s they claimed that men were more intelligent because of having bigger frontal lobes. At the end of the century they have suddenly changed their minds, and decided that the parts responsible for intellectual activities were parietal loves which, surprisingly, were also found larger in men, even though 30 years earlier women were claimed to be the parietal types!
Even though intelligence quotient tests are far from being ideal, they are still the best available way of measuring person’s intellectual capabilities. The IQ test was introduced in year 1905 but it took time until it became subjective. In the beginnings the scientists believed that there were no sex differences concerning intelligence, which resulted in discarding test items that were constantly scored better by particular sex. Basing on the IQ test results we can fearlessly state that men are not more intelligent than women. The overall score of an average man is indistinguishable of an average woman’s one. However, there is a hypothesis that men score top and bottom of the rank, while female scores are usually in the middle. It might lead to a conclusion that there are more brilliant males than females, but it is the same when we talk about dull people. The credibility of this hypothesis might be undermined by the fact that two highest scores that have been achieved in the USA were both obtained by women. Still, there probably is a difference between men and women in the type of intelligence that they have. It has been spotted that females do better than males on the sections of IQ tests requiring verbal item skills, while they were worse at the visual-spatial items. This might be the cause of similar average scores of both genders as those two sorts of items come in a roughly equal number in most tests. Of course, it should not be considered as an important factor in hiring a new employee, because even if one of the sexes does better at a particular type of questions does not mean that a specific man will be better in it than a specific woman, or the other way round. We cannot predict anything on the basis of his, or her, sex. Nevertheless, the biological predispositions caused by the fact that most males are visual-spatial types can be easily seen in practice. Shortly speaking, it is the reason why boys do worse than girls when it comes to reading. Boys are more likely to have problems with it, although there is a theory that it is connected with motivation – boys are more diligent readers when they are interested in the subject of what they are reading, while girls do equally well whether interested or not in the subject. It can be also connected with the fact that young males are impulsive, while their peer females are rather reflective. There is yet another side effect of males being worse with verbal items – adult men are eight times more likely than women to suffer from stammering. It might be a sign of general male deficiency at language aspects, but as studies revealed it is rather unlikely to be true. One of the researches shows that boys are superior at verbal analogy tests. There are although some concerns about credibility of these studies, as there are ten times more boys with severe dyslexia than girls, which prevent them from taking part in written exams. If they were able to take part in those studies, then a clear advantage of girls would have appeared.
As I have written before, despite being weaker at verbal items, men do definitely better than women when a task requires using visual-spatial abilities. It might be a reason why men are more present in such professions and activities like science, engineering, architecture, surgery, watch making, playing chess, cricket, baseball or painting. In fact, how many female painters can one recall from the top of his, or her, head? There are several proofs that men do better in activities requiring good visual-spatial skills. For example at adolescence, boys constantly get higher scores on physic tests, but only on those questions which involve good spatial-visual skills. As for verbal questions, girls are as good, or sometimes even better, as boys. The fact that physic tests consist mainly of visual-spatial questions makes girls situation harder than boys, and it means that physic might be a gender-biased subject, as well as maths where those skills are needed in geometry. The question appears why is it so? It might be a side effect of prehistoric duties of males and females. Men had to hunt down animals, what required good visual-spatial abilities, for example to hold the weapon properly, and it is the same situation with producing tools and weapons. Female functions, on the other hand, were mainly to raise up children which was an activity requiring mainly verbal skills. The best at ‘their skills’ men and women were most likely to survive and pass on their genes, which might have made men and women develop different intellectual abilities, while forsaking the other ones. There is also a genetic theory concerning spatial-visual ability [..]. There is one, quite convincing, argument that makes this theory credible. The studies of this ability show that there are twice more men with superior visual-spatial ability than women, and it is a very supportive finding as only half of the girls with proper visual-spatial gene on their maternal X chromosome will have a matching paternal X chromosome, while all boys with the proper X chromosome will be superior in visual-spatial ability. It is interesting that this specificity of people can be also found in rats. Male rats are faster in learning the quickest way through a maze in order to reach food. Another very fascinating and important fact is that the difference between the sexes in countries where women have a acquiescent role in the society, like in India, is very visible, when in other societies, like Eskimos, there is no difference. It might mean that because of the strong need of visual-spatial skill for every Eskimo, despite their gender, the natural selections has excluded those who lacked this skill. It has also been proven that both verbal and visual-spatial abilities can be improved with a proper training. So the fact that somebody is verbally or spatial-visually handicapped does not mean that he or she should not try to improve at it, and just excuse oneself by the gender disadvantage.
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looking at the pictures of the same sex, than at the pictures of the other sex
Are men more intelligent than men? Until recently the answer was quite obvious. It was only as recently as a century ago when the attempt to check the validity of this theory was made
parietal loves
The IQ test was introduced in year 1905 but it took time until it became subjective - do you mean objective?
Are men more intelligent than men? Until recently the answer was quite obvious. It was only as recently as a century ago when the attempt to check the validity of this theory was made
parietal loves
The IQ test was introduced in year 1905 but it took time until it became subjective - do you mean objective?
If you look at his profile you'll find that his is in fact a giant, blinking, paperclip.
Thanks, although naphtali was nice to give me a full proof read. But still, I'm grateful :)
parietal loves - this one is correct, it's 'lobes', brain lobes :)
Yeah, objective...I was so exhausted that I've made a lot of stupid mistakes. I haven't read it even once before posting it, and still had only 3 hours of sleep.
parietal loves - this one is correct, it's 'lobes', brain lobes :)
Yeah, objective...I was so exhausted that I've made a lot of stupid mistakes. I haven't read it even once before posting it, and still had only 3 hours of sleep.
Nah, that's Al Pacino. And it's strobing, not blinking.
i have an english exam next week
fancy doing it for me? :)
fancy doing it for me? :)
If you are going to be the one who will pay for the plane...:P