{"id":1759,"date":"2017-02-27T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2017-12-28T21:25:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T21:25:38","slug":"gender-and-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/gender-and-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender and Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1760 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/AdobeStock_128866335_Credit-1024x484.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_128866335_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/AdobeStock_128866335_Credit-1024x484.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/AdobeStock_128866335_Credit-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/24\/opinion\/sunday\/women-do-like-to-compete-against-themselves.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">research<\/a>,\u00a0a key difference might be\u00a0<em>the choice of opponent<\/em>. \u00a0Whereas men typically prefer to compete against others, women often choose to compete against themselves.<\/p>\n<p>(As always: be careful about oversimplifcation of gender roles. I myself am\u00a0much likelier to compete against myself than others.\u00a0As <a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/on-average-the-average-is-off\/\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Rose<\/a> notes, averages often give us useful information about groups, but never about individuals.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to new research,\u00a0a key difference might be\u00a0the choice of opponent. \u00a0Whereas men typically prefer to compete against others, women often choose to compete against themselves. (As always: be careful about oversimplifcation of gender roles. I myself am\u00a0much likelier to compete against myself than others.\u00a0As Todd Rose notes, averages often give us useful information about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,24],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-gender","tag-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}