Reply #12: learning styles.... [View All]

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The funny thing about all this is - it seems that schools - with the regimentation, and systems and structures seems like that fits the "male thinking model" - more than the "female" more empathetic model.

I think with the male model - people like to know what is expected and to be rewarded for doing what is expected.

If schools followed a more female model - everyone would probably be expected to help each other more. It might be more like the one room schoolhouse - where everyone was a teacher and a student and it sounded like MORE pandemonium, not less.

The people trying to argue that boys are disadvantaged are trying to argue that they shouldn't be expected to behave themselves - and I don't think that argument makes sense. And I really have to wonder if they understand the whole systemizing mindset at all.

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As far as the "I frequently start hobbies... question - I probably made assumptions based on what I thought they meant - "often" being a relative term anyway. Since I've read about Aspergers and I know that people tend to be focused about whatever hobby they happen to have at the time -whether they do it for 6 months or 6 years - I sort of assumed that might be what they were talking about.

I agree that such tests seem awfully subjective - esp. when the quizee is expected to rate intensity - and people might rate that very differently. But I got to thinking about it and with this test - how intense people rate things "strongly agreeing" or "slightly agreeing" - could mean something in and of itself. I tend to NOT see myself on the extremes for instance. Except when it comes to maps and such.