Well, it's quite an essay you wrote here. Some clarifications: - I have deleted the posts because I do not want to start a flame war. I don't particularly like to get caught in flames, and my posts were not major contributions - judging from your replies, quite the opposite. - Sexist characterization based on chromosomes alone: I don't consider such things (although differences exists, I hope you won't deny that). I have mentioned facts/data alone, not judgement, yet you imply, I think, I am considering other kind of arguments (logical or not) by making the original statements. Look on Allan Pease speech here: Men and Women[^] about left/right and orientation. It's something I discovered for myself and analyzed by others. - On why I did not mentioned men stupidities as well: it's simple; the thread was about women in programming. I was simply following the topic. Anyways, again statistically, I was witnessed far more gory things done by men - simply because there are more men than women in programming. One can wonder how many brutalities done on a soccer field are done by men and women, no? The question seems logical, yet is a nonsense since 99.9% people playing soccer are men. - left/right if-then-else; you are missing the point. Women *do* have troubles differentiating left to right not because they are direction crippled or something; they cannot do this instinctively most of the time as men do. Again, watch Allan Pease explanation at 1:39 - "you don't know the right from left, Sheryl !" - or read about it here[^]. - statistics validating my claims: again, these are observations, I didn't wrote them as a some form of lemma. - MFC vs WTL and the goal of winning: women see winning as a waste of time; true, most of the time. Competing for the same resources, however, brings the better potential and evolution. Did you hear women talking about men watching a soccer game "what I waste of time, 22 guys running after a leather ball, how stupid". I know I did. What does this tells? Bottom line on MFC v WTL - most of programmers do not care about this, since they are

That may explain why I got the impression that a couple of the snippits were duplicated - It may be interesting to compare how often those cases got the same rating from the same person and also to correlate with the position it was served up as our impressions will change as we work through them meaning that our rating of later samples are likely to be influenced by earlier ratings.