So Ms. Angel, if I'm smart enough to understand what you are saying here - Guys know real shit and chicks are good at makin'-up shit!!
Originally Posted by Ed Highlight
No, what I'm saying is that men take a part-by-part approach and women a holistic approach. A man approaches every problem from individual parts which he puts together one by one until he arrives at a whole. A woman is good at taking a collection of parts that may not even seem to match in a man's mind, then looking at those parts and saying "where have I seen this before"? That's why men are better at innovation; the male brain is better at going into the undiscovered country "where no man has gone before" as long as the facts are there. But the female brain is better at making intuitive leaps based upon scant facts whose like she or any of her friends or family have seen before. Hence, the "eyes in the back of her head" syndrome; your wife yells at you for doing something you did actually do, but you can't figure out how she knows you did it. It's because she picked up on scattered pieces of the picture that resemble parts of behavioral patterns she's encountered in the past.
Incidentally, this difference in thinking explains the
wunderkind syndrome in men; often a genius will accomplish some groundbreaking achievement when he's fairly young (twenties or thirties), then spend the rest of his life unable to match that innovative peak because now he's psychologically unable to risk his reputation by making the same sort of leaps he made when he had nothing to lose. But a wise woman just keeps getting wiser (unless she goes senile) because as her experiences accumulate, her pool of available cognitive models continues to grow and thus, though she isn't really "smarter" in an absolute sense, her intuition has more examples to draw upon.