Comments on: When we’re talking about geniuses we’re not talking about you http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/archives/45 Careful she bites Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:11:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: The myth of the computer science gene | Vagina Dentata http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/archives/45/comment-page-1#comment-127 The myth of the computer science gene | Vagina Dentata Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:40:41 +0000 http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/?p=45#comment-127 [...] posts on female/male intelligence and women and open source software. This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 at [...] [...] posts on female/male intelligence and women and open source software. This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 at [...]

]]> By: Neuroskeptic http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/archives/45/comment-page-1#comment-50 Neuroskeptic Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:59:41 +0000 http://www.vaginadentatablog.net/?p=45#comment-50 Excellent post. Einstein famously refused to become a politician (he was offered, and turned down, the Presidency of Israel).<br /><br />Rightly so because I don't think he would have made an especially good politician, certainly he would not have been as good a politician as he was a physicist.<br /><br />Although it's not terribly PC, in my experience, people are who "geniuses" in scientific fields are if anything less adept than average at the kind of social skills that you need to succeed in politics.<br /><br />It takes a certain kind of mind to do what Einstein did, it takes another kind of mind to win at politics. There may be more male Einsteins, but that doesn't mean there should be more male politicians. Excellent post. Einstein famously refused to become a politician (he was offered, and turned down, the Presidency of Israel).

Rightly so because I don't think he would have made an especially good politician, certainly he would not have been as good a politician as he was a physicist.

Although it's not terribly PC, in my experience, people are who "geniuses" in scientific fields are if anything less adept than average at the kind of social skills that you need to succeed in politics.

It takes a certain kind of mind to do what Einstein did, it takes another kind of mind to win at politics. There may be more male Einsteins, but that doesn't mean there should be more male politicians.

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