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Does tech promote one gender’s approach to the world over another?

I was reminded of this post I wrote a month ago (and never posted) when I read at Overcoming Bias that women being more picky than men at speed dating events was the result of the way the event was set up, not some insight into the difference between genders. Here they quote the original Washington Post article:

In almost all speed-dating events, women sit in stationary positions and men rotate to talk with each of them. When Finkel and Eastwick set up a dating event like that, the standard result bore out — women were more selective. But when they reversed the roles and had women rotate, that was no longer the case. Suddenly, the men became more selective and the women less so.

Anyway, here’s the post I wrote about tech and gender, which I don’t think is offensive, and certainly isn’t meant to be, but if it is I apologize.

Last month [September] I went to a Yankee game with my buddy Jimmy. We went to high school together and hadn’t actually hung out in two years or so. While at the game we remarked, as is ...