Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:
It seems like female special interests are more likely to involve animals, bioscience, arts, crafts and such (and voracious reading), as opposed to machines, electronics, weapons, and other technological things. -- But only as a tendency and not a rule that's always true.
Heh, the special interest that caused me to realize I had them was FIRST robotics :p. I was given the role of explaining the robot to the judges and the principal of the school ended up telling me he didn't think I'd ever be as good socially as he saw me in those situations. (Though I've also had stereotypically female special interests (turtles,
The Hobbit and such)
I want to know how much this is actually true (that there's a tendency in that direction), and how much people assume its true or deal with selection bias because of the overall viewpoint that females aren't into engineering, math, or non-biology science fields.