Obviously, formal, symbolic thinking has no emotions, unless for the excitement of debugging, dominating that damn machine that refuses to do what one orders it to do, etc. - typical male characteristics. I have an old lap-top and a modern notebook. I am tired of telling my wife that she will be able to do many more things, in an easier and faster way if she would use my notebook. She has tried to use the mouse, but as everybody else, had coordination problems in the beginning. This was enough for her not trying it again.
Girls develop in general much faster than boys.
V.W. Computers in Education . They must be clean, they must be quiet. But what disturbs me in her statement is that one thinks girls behave in their typical fashion because of cultural influences. Obviously, the environment plays an important role, but I have tried to show that deep human characteristics are involved with sex differences in using and having interest in computers. In this sense, I would like to say that maybe a mix of the male and female characteristics would be ideal.