rundhvid

CheeseFreeze said:

I might be in the vast minority here, but I’d love to see a rack mount Mac Pro. 

radarthekat said:

docno42 said:

radarthekat said:
What you suggest needs to start in schools ignores the fact that school age children are very often influenced by role models they see  in society.  What’s missed by your stance is that it takes a generation to prime the pump for true equality.  

What you and most of the off the wall left seem hell bent on ignoring is that men and women have different preferences.  "True equality" is the worst kind of projecting.  Stop trying to fix non-existant problems. 

If you go back to the 1950s, where girls were taught home economics and boys were taught mechanics or carpentry in the American school system and at home, you found men out working after graduating and women waitressing or filling secretarial roles until they married.  That was an extreme example of this preference you may think is inborn.  In those days a female engineer would have been seen as an oddity, out of the ordinary.  

Fast forward and women have bigger ambitions?  Why?  Did natural evolutionary forces, in just a few generations, suddenly kick in, ala Stephen J Gould's punctuated equilibrium theory?  No.  Society changed, more young girls were exposed to a more equal education and were taught that they 'could' choose a wider array of careers, and that it was acceptable to have career ambitions.  As this transition proceeded, girls still saw that many fields were very much entrenched male domains, and it took some hutzpuh on the part of a female to break into those fields, to dare to compete with the boys, so to speak.  It takes a generation, or two, for these types of barriers to fall and it takes role models.  

So the world has not remained static since the 1950s, nor should we stop where we are now.  There's still more work to be done by society before I think we'll be at the point where young girls see the full range of career opportunities as being viable options.  It's true that women have a natural imperative, to create a family, and that certain careers demand a longer time in school to qualify and a longer commitment of years on the job to reach full mastery, but there are women who have opted to become doctors, a career path no doubt opened to their eyes via the nursing field.  And those female doctors have found a way to balance both career and family ambitions, I hope.  Role models within other STEM fields will show young girls that there's possibly a way for them to balance both a demanding career (once the domain of men) and the desire to have children (the natural imperative of women).  

We won't truly know what the aggregate preferences  of women are until society is structured to allow them to pursue their full array of ambitions without prejudice or constraint.  Just as we didn't know in the 1950s how many career paths women would choose to pursue if they weren't conditioned in childhood to see motherhood and family as their overwhelmingly primary role. 

One note: I've been living in The Philippines for the last six years, and this place shares a lot of similarities with America in the 1950s.  Girls are taught that family is EVERYTHING.  Society here works, except for the 40% stuck in abject poverty and the number of teenage mothers.  When I say it works, I mean that people seem happy and smile easily.  But they simply have no means to better their situation.  Forces here keep them ignorant and humans make the best of what they have and size their dreams accordingly.  As an American I cannot imagine in my worst dreams of hell living my life in their shoes, as I would bet that you, as a man, wouldn't want to be constrained in your life choices as girls were in the 1950s, a decade before laws we're changed to allow women the simple privilege of having their own bank account without a man co-signing to open it. Can you imagine?  

In case you can't, watch this video that I spotted today.  This is not me, not my YouTube channel.  This is just one of the many YouTubers who show what life is like here.   Extrapolate as needed.  

https://youtu.be/G8S_YpuBF50

 

Society here works, except for the 40% stuck in abject poverty and the number of teenage mothers

JP234 said:

rundhvid said:

Eighty-two percent of respondents said they wear their Apple Watch every day.

This fraction is one of several critical aspects that is handled problematic in the report!

—the 18% of  Watch users who do not wear their watch during the day, doesn’t classify their watch as a smartwatch, but most likely only use it while exercising. These 18% of users should therefore have been excluded from the study of satisfaction among smartwatch-users.

You can't selectively exclude responses to get a desired result. Well, you can, but then you'd be no better than FoxNews.