What I don't understand about women

[Parnassia]

Originally Posted by OzzyRules

I was listening to a radio show and a woman called in to answer a question: What year did the singer Billy Joel start taking piano lessons?
a. 1955
b. 1975
c. 1935

I remember the woman was older than me. They asked her age. In age she was roughly halfway between myself and Billy Joel and had always been a fan, which meant (to me) that she should have known better than me. Anyway she got the answer WRONG.

How could that possibly happen? I think the question itself was like a freebie. But I remember thinking, women (strangely) are not good at these kind of questions. She might even get it wrong. Sure enough, she did.

Do women think differently?

Talk about stupid questions and getting it wrong. Pot, meet kettle.

[Jay F]

I don't think this is gender specific. My guess is more people would answer wrong on an easy question like this today than ever before.

[turkey-head]

Hey like I said, I've worked with and gone to school with several women who are VERY good at math.

It's just that most women aren't. A big part of that is that they're not expected to be good at it.

BTW, my wife doesn't sew. She doesn't measure very well either.

[Jay F]

You don't have to be good at math to answer that question. Billy Joel wasn't alive in 1935 and he was already recording albums by 1975.

[PJSaturn]

A sweeping generalization about any group of people is never a good thing and such threads always end badly. Therefore, this thread is now closed.

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