Stupid Essay for English

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[quote]Eli B wrote:

[quote]Spartiates wrote:

What the hell is wrong with you guys?
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They are kidding around, trolling, or just not worth your time. This is what I have learned in my time at T-Nation.

I think sexism is a huge problem because it is so widely accepted.

Now don’t get me wrong, I had to take a womens studies class in college and I found it stupid, unscientific and wrong headed in its argument that there are no differences between the sexes but I also think womens way of thinking is an important balance to our stupid shit-kicking way.

Let me see if I can find the study that shows that women are MUCH better stock traders than men because they don’t get carried away on a victory high.

here:
A recent study by Digital Look, who analysed 100,000 portfolios, revealed that ordinary women investors, living all over the country and dealing in shares via the internet, telephone or investment clubs are consistently doing better than highly paid professionals in the city. During the period of the study the average female portfolio rose by 10% compared to just a 4% rise for the overall FTSE index and a 6% increase for that of the average man.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-Women-Make-Better-Traders-and-Investors-Than-Men&id=520211[/quote]

the problem with that article that you quote is that is says that they beat ‘highly paid professionals’ in the city - without citing who they were, if they were quoting what they have earned for their clients (which wouldnt reflect on them) or what accounts of theirs it was analyzing. they are going to be alot more careful with their retirement money than a funny money brokerage acct that they dont care if it blows up for example. And its funny that a women writing an article says that women can take emotion out of trading - women can incorporate emotion into every single aspect of their lives, ive NEVER met one that has been able to take it out of anything.

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Recent research has shown the empirical evidence for globalization of corporate innovation is very limited. And as a corollary, the market for technologies is shrinking. As a world leader, it is important for America to provide systematic research grants for our scientists. I believe strongly there will always be a need for us to have a well-articulated innovation policy with emphasis on human resource development. Thank You.

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[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Recent research has shown the empirical evidence for globalization of corporate innovation is very limited. And as a corollary, the market for technologies is shrinking. As a world leader, it is important for America to provide systematic research grants for our scientists. I believe strongly there will always be a need for us to have a well-articulated innovation policy with emphasis on human resource development. Thank You.[/quote]

I’ve got nothing. That was perfect.

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[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Recent research has shown the empirical evidence for globalization of corporate innovation is very limited. And as a corollary, the market for technologies is shrinking. As a world leader, it is important for America to provide systematic research grants for our scientists. I believe strongly there will always be a need for us to have a well-articulated innovation policy with emphasis on human resource development. Thank You.[/quote]

Haha awesome

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[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Recent research has shown the empirical evidence for globalization of corporate innovation is very limited. And as a corollary, the market for technologies is shrinking. As a world leader, it is important for America to provide systematic research grants for our scientists. I believe strongly there will always be a need for us to have a well-articulated innovation policy with emphasis on human resource development. Thank You.[/quote]

win

as an aside though (or continuing my first point) suck it the f**K up … you are always going to do things that are un-interesting… its up to YOU to make it intereting, escpecially when its as open ended as this.

heaven forbid you have to think !! we cant have that in college… !!!

I took a women studies class in undergrad and loved it, but you have to be able to open your mind a bit and think…

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I don’t think a whole lit class should be turned into a feminist party but many people are completely unaware of the role of women and history. I bet I could walk to a history class and most of the guys wouldn’t know women were only give then right to vote 60 years ago. Of course I could also go around and get hundreds of signatures from girls to petition ending “women’s sufferage” LOL epic!

I wouldn’t hate her for one paper. Just dont get excessive.

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[quote]clockworkchad wrote:

[quote]Eli B wrote:

[quote]Spartiates wrote:

What the hell is wrong with you guys?
[/quote]

They are kidding around, trolling, or just not worth your time. This is what I have learned in my time at T-Nation.

I think sexism is a huge problem because it is so widely accepted.

Now don’t get me wrong, I had to take a womens studies class in college and I found it stupid, unscientific and wrong headed in its argument that there are no differences between the sexes but I also think womens way of thinking is an important balance to our stupid shit-kicking way.

Let me see if I can find the study that shows that women are MUCH better stock traders than men because they don’t get carried away on a victory high.

here:
A recent study by Digital Look, who analysed 100,000 portfolios, revealed that ordinary women investors, living all over the country and dealing in shares via the internet, telephone or investment clubs are consistently doing better than highly paid professionals in the city. During the period of the study the average female portfolio rose by 10% compared to just a 4% rise for the overall FTSE index and a 6% increase for that of the average man.

the problem with that article that you quote is that is says that they beat ‘highly paid professionals’ in the city - without citing who they were, if they were quoting what they have earned for their clients (which wouldnt reflect on them) or what accounts of theirs it was analyzing. they are going to be alot more careful with their retirement money than a funny money brokerage acct that they dont care if it blows up for example. And its funny that a women writing an article says that women can take emotion out of trading - women can incorporate emotion into every single aspect of their lives, ive NEVER met one that has been able to take it out of anything.
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Look Im not statistician but … My understanding is this finding has been duplicated in up and down markets time and time again. In scientific studies with results that could not be more simple and evident that bottom line. Again, not a statistician so I can’t validate that for myself but I trust the reporting that I have heard and read about this. It seems right.

Its based on the idea of the win streak. A sports team gets hot and gains confidence. The rush, and the confidence they feel makes them more confident and therefore more likely to win against their next opponent.

This same phenomenon carries over to trading except trading is not an athletic feat under direct control of the individual or the individuals on the team. The market fluctuates on so many different variables that confidence does not lead to greater success. In fact with the market over-confidence leads to worse performance.

Now a woman probably cannot divorce her emotions from her decision. However her decisions are less likely to be agressive and arrogant (<–stereotypical male traits) and make fewer, better trades overall.

I think women and men are better and worse at different things. Working together everyone compensates for each others weaknesses. This last part is my opinion formed partly from evidence, personal experience, intuition and idealism. 2 cents.

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[quote]Mascherano wrote:
This is a highly informed thread! Great work gentlemen.

Seriously OP, you have your essay written for you right here.

Listen to the cat who mentioned Ayn Rand - that woman’s POV is disgusting and yet oh so admirable. Her voice was definitely not stifled, partly, I’d gander, because the subject matter has very “masculine” overtones. And then you can compare it with others like J.K Rowling who decided to use a pseudonym in order to be taken seriously b/c they write about fluffy dumb girly shit. Could be an interesting exercise.[/quote]

~RAISES HAND~ I’m the one who mentioned Rand. And I think your topic idea is great.

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I turned in the initial draft today. I really liked roybot’s idea of women and Shakespeare. I focused on how Renaissance/ Enlightenment authors wrote about women (generally strong) and how more modern writers tend to write women as unjustly dominated by men, with the Industrial Revolution being the main catalyst of this change in perception (since women no longer worked the farm as much and spent more time at home). Btw, Petermus, women were able to vote in the US 90 years ago during the 1920 election after the ratification of the 19th amendment, unless you meant something else.

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[quote]clockworkchad wrote:
id talk about how the work place much have been much better when it was 95% men, now its just women getting paid to gossip and talk trash about other women behind their back, or abuse their authority with subordinates[/quote]

you can’t even speak properly