WARNING SEXUAL CONTENT Re: Re: Nadas and sex

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that is an amazing post about the gender bias in different fields of

study.

I was shocked to learn that numbers and letters (language) are both

done on the left side of the brain; a class I am taking confirmed

this...this whole racked about women being right-brain vs. men being

left brain as it relates to math vs. language is a complete hoax. We

have been doing information processing as it relates to the human

brain for the past few chapters and one thing they are saying is

that for new knowledge to be moved into long-term memory from

working (short-term) memory it has to be related to something that

is already in long-term memory and I truly believe this *is* the

main problem, at least for the generation I grew up in, that we

weren't taught those subjects from our particular cultural

perspective, like your argument about spatial and CAD vs. pattern

making. I once read an article that explained how a car engine works

as related to how household appliances work, like the washing

machine, and vacuum cleaners etc, related to different parts of the

engine and it made complete sense. I am having to study math again

right now and it has brought up so much for me about why it was so

difficult, two reasons I struggle with it is that I can't relate

much of it to anything in my experience, so it doesn't go into my

long-term memory, and that I realized that just doing basic math,

where I start having problems is anywhere they have jumped ahead

without telling us why it is that this is so. I.e. it's a bunch of

rules to memorize without knowing, or seeing why these things are

true, and the way I learn is from the bottom up, I comprehend much

better if shown step by step why things end up being a certain

answer. And in teaching math they just don't have time to do that,

so you memorize rules (and in my case, immediately forget them). I

understand now with the family I grew up in why I can't just take

any rules at face-value, because the 'rules' in my family changed

constantly and were completely insane. No wonder I disregarded math

rather than trying to be proficient at it.