(cont'd from yesterday's post)
There's physical strength, and there's mental strength. They are not related, right? Well, maybe they are. In yesterday's video you saw a clip of a professor talking about the connection.
The Stanford University professor says that two people competing in a Grand Masters Chess Tournament have the same blood pressure for six hours that a marathon runner has. They burn a lot of calories just thinking (comments on this prof's claim).
The point being made is that strenuous and prolonged thinking, as in a chess tournament or video game tournament, makes great physical demands on a person even though he or she is not doing physical work.
So maybe some women prefer activities or professions that require less sustained intense brain activity - even though they have no less intelligence.
A provocative theory. If true, it could explain part of the reason why women may make somewhat different career choices than men.
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