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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Nothing interesting... :P Ladies, gentlemen, aliens and readers of this humble blog, I present to you The Neo Theory, not really carefully thought out after days and months and years of thinking and observing.The Neo Theory is as follows:"Boys are better at MCQs, girls are better at structured questions."We'll look at the first part. Boys are better at MCQs. Recall back to secondary school days, who always topped the class in MCQ papers ? A guy ! Always a guy ! Guy Guy GUY !!! Never a girl !!! A current female classmate at school has told me that she doesn't like doing MCQs. Why ? Simply because girls can't make a decision. Let's use a maths test as an example. A girl and guy are faced with this question.2 + 2 = ?Choice= 3, 4, ,5 or 6What is typically running through a girl's mind is this.'Okay...6 is out''Hmm...I think the answer is 4''But wait! 3 seems close!'5 could be correct too! Very close too!''Which one?!''I'll put down 4 first''No! 3 seems more correct!'And after much deliberation, the girl will probably end up picking some weird answer like 5 or 6 when she had the correct answer at first. A guy will think like that.'dunno. tikam.''eeeeny meeeny miny MO! okay 4 it is then.'A guy does not really have 'study' in his dictionary. He has 'sit down and stare at paper and think about football' but no 'study'. So when the test comes he either picks randomly or chooses anything that looks remotely like an answer. He doesn't deliberate too much and is very happy to have just answered the question, whether or not the answer was correct or wrong.GIRLS 0 GUYS 1Let's apply this concept of girls being weaker at MCQs to shopping now.Girl walks into store. Girl sees something she likes. Girl has these optionsbuy!don't buy!got sale! 50% off!no sale! should i wait for sale? buy more can get some card!dunno!ask my good friend Mary for advice!go toilet first then come back thinkASK A GUY! Ask him and then scold him anyway whether it helps or not!Guy walks into store. Guy sees something he likes. Guy has these optionsBuy?Or not to Buy ?Here probability comes in and n(Girls)= 10 while n(Boys)= 2 where probability of success (p) must be equal to 1 and is not biased or does not take in any other factor or variable; and is non-cumulative too. Hence using the BINOMDIST function in Microsoft Excel where we enter the values as =BINOMDIST(1,1,1/10,FALSE) the probability of girls picking a correct answer is 0.1. In the case of guys, n=2 where the function will be entered as =BINOMDIST(1,1,1/2,FALSE) and the result as such is 0.5.Therefore, if you couldn't understand the whole chunk of rubbish text I have written above, it simply means girls have a 10% success of picking the correct answer when dealing with MCQ questions while guys have a 50% chance of picking the correct answer.GIRLS 0 GUYS 2Right then, the 2nd part of The Neo Theory clearly states that 'girls are better at structured questions'. Which is true really. Ask a guy where to eat and he will reply 'dunno'. Ask a girl and she will reply 'let's go here and here, or let's try there, the meals are cheap and good and i want to try out that new dish...'. Let's apply this to something like 2 + 2.Why is 2 + 2 = 4? (10 marks)Girls will answer something like:The equation 2 + 2 is equal to 4 because as predetermined by the ancient Greeks who invented numerals and counting, the initial 'one' was designated to a single object. 'two' was designated when they saw two similar things together. 'three' was when they saw three and so on. addition was discovered by some greek fella who had too much time yadayadayadayada and that is why 2 + 2 equals to 4 when a single object is seen with another single obejct and both have similar charateristics and they are encountered with another 2 objects with the same events occuring in this case.Guys will answer something like:ERROR. Unable to generate answer due to gateway timeout system error Code 401. or something like that.GIRLS 10 GUYS 2In conclusion, girls are better at arguing. Girls demand explanations for lots of things. Everything must know why. Girls are more meticulous and careful when doing things. Girls are more serious when doing work. Which is why girls tend to score better at structured questions. This can also be their downfall. When it comes to MCQs, there's no place for arguing. It's this or nothing. Guys usually are more decisive but don't put a lot of thought into their decisions.Thank you for reading my rubbish explanations, take a look at my flawed theory again, and I hope you'll understand it and see how it can be applied to certain aspects of life.
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