That tracing woodgrains peice on David Gerard is out

https://awful.systems/post/1874248

That tracing woodgrains peice on David Gerard is out - awful.systems

Lemmy

Quillette, Claire Lehmann’s longform magazine focused on science and cultural critique and the home of, among other things, the best-researched article I know of on gender differences in chess

ah yes quillette, that fine bastion of whitewashing

the best-researched article I know of on gender differences in chess

just… the absolute weirdest thing to pick? like, fucking seriously? or is there some weird-ass chess proxy-fixation among the rats that I have thus far been blessedly unaware of?

or is there some weird-ass chess proxy-fixation among the rats that I have thus far been blessedly unaware of?

Gonna take a shot in the dark and say the fixation’s from viewing chess more as an IQ showcase than as a game.

probably but it isn’t one I’ve come across (in this form), thus my surprise
also, just ito “things to pick by which to point out dirtrag as a Shining Beacon”, it’s pretty fucking out there
They’re all in for Chess as a sine qua non metric for intelligence. Better to call it g than IQ tbh. Not only does it have the lick of rigour, it has the nerd cultural cachet and the ludicrous white masculinity complex.