Women like working with people, men like working with things, all over the world

Re:Women like working with people, men like working with thi... by squokko on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @02:18AM (#34146132)

Not sure you'd learn the most from the hunter-gatherers, who have the narrowest leeway in their survival and must have everyone doing exactly what they're best suited at. A fat rich society with more money than they can spend, like Norway or Qatar or Brunei, is likely more instructive.

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Re:Women like working with people, men like working with thi... by XorNot on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @03:33AM (#34146628)

A hunter gatherer society would be the exact opposite of highly specialised ("doing what you're best at").

It has little margin for loss of function, so a poor performer is better and more likely to survive then losing the performance of the function entirely.

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Re:Women like working with people, men like working with thi... by nullsense on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @04:43AM (#34147118)

I'm pretty sure what they meant was "if you need to go and hunt and kill your food, then the physically stronger members of the group have to go and do that, and that means someone has to stay and look after the kids and the members of the group who can produce food for the infants likely fit that bill"

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