Anon #sexist dalrock.wordpress.com

What I keep bringing up is that while physical underperformance is to be expected, women also are completely inferior in mental sports like Chess.

98% of all Chess Grandmasters are male. The 2% that are women reside at the bottom of the sample distribution. This is CHESS. It is the activity with the lowest possible barrier to entry, and women don’t even need men to practice with at all – they can just keep practicing with each other and keep improving. Yet, it does not happen. 98% of Chess Grandmasters are men, and that will not change.

That is I think even more damning than any physical sport.

Furthermore, the distribution of Chess Grandmasters by gender is probably a good indicator of gender contributions of useful work in a knowledge-based economy. Can anyone argue that a gender that produces only 2% of Chess Grandmasters can make a valuable contribution in the most high-cognitive fields?

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