Bob Musicant wrote:
"Doug Wedel" wrote in message
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"David Ames"

Doubtless there are fewer women chess players than men chess players;
consequently there are fewer "efficient" women chess players than men
chess players. That may be the answer to a question you should have
asked.

Ah, but look at bridge. There may very well be *more* women bridge

players

than men bridge players, yet there are very very few women among the world
class bridge players. Wonder why.



I already explained. Different brain structure/function.



With all due respect, this hardly seems defensible at this level of
abstraction. We have a social phenomenon: men dominate chess at all
levels. We have a plausible scientific claim: men's and women's brains
are "structured" differently (although I'm not quite sure what this
means). You now have a reasonable hypothesis, that's all.

FWIW, I'm verys skeptical that there is a simple (single-factor)
explanation here, any more than there could be a simple explanation for
the observation that about half of the world champions had Jewish
ancestry. Or that only one has had Spanish for a first language, etc.

John