What chess taught me about the differences between men and women

For many men, loved ones recede from our minds when we’re attending to other matters because compartmentalizing our lives seems to come naturally. Many women find that difficult to understand. The female tendency to maintain connection, and the male tendency to compartmentalize, are evolved adaptations designed for different but complementary sets

Risk-taking is another aspect of behaviour where there seems to be a consistent sex difference. As teenagers and young adults, boys are generally more willing to take risks, and to take much greater risks, than girls.

László’s has plenty of holes that keep it from becoming a model of scientific purity. There was no control group, for starters. All three of the Polgár sisters received the same education. There was no fourth sister who went to school the normal way and missed László’s special training. There was no randomization. László didn’t adopt a random child

Games, a universal in human societies, might have emerged as a framework for building mental models of one another. They may have been preserved and elaborated across generations thanks to their benefits in teaching people how to reason about one another. Players must understand the beliefs and preferences of other players to secure the best outcom