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Yet another "hard-wired" argument - from UK chess expert

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grimbletart · 20/04/2015 10:16

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/chess/11548840/Nigel-Short-Girls-just-dont-have-the-brains-to-play-chess.html

Nigel Short, one of the UK's greatest chess players claims women are hard-wired not to play the game well.

Love this little gem (not). "I don't have the slightest problem (he says) in acknowledging that my wife possesses a much higher degree of emotional intelligence than I do. Likewise, she doesn't feel embarrassed in asking me to manoeuvre the car out of our narrow garage."

Wrong Nigel love. You don't have emotional intelligence, not because you are a man, but because you spend half your life hunched over a board game instead of of interacting with the rest of the human race. Your wife is bad at getting the car out of the garage not because she is a woman but because she is a fucking awful driver.

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KensingtonRose · 20/04/2015 18:04

I wonder how proud his mother is of him. It was a woman that brought him into the world, he should have more respect. Little shit.

grimbletart · 20/04/2015 17:54

No Harolds. You're probably right about my headline. I really had the "are we, aren't we different" general debates that go on from time to time in mind. Perhaps I should have said "non argument" Grin

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HaroldsBishop · 20/04/2015 16:45

I don't think you can really call it an argument if he doesn't present any reasoning/evidence.

His thinking seems to be along the lines of: "Science says there are differences in brains" therefore "Women are worse at chess". Top logic there, Nige.

In fact five seconds of googling finds a study that shows that the difference in chess performance between male and female players can be explained fully by differences in participation rates only:

www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/PTA-026-27-1014/outputs/Download/1b19d40f-718a-437c-8aff-f871fb477ec8

BuffyEpistemiwhatsit · 20/04/2015 13:38

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hobNong · 20/04/2015 13:11

Him not you grumble!

hobNong · 20/04/2015 13:11

What an idiot.