Re: hearing, gender, new info...

[matthew hahn <esker@mail.utexas.edu>]

I think your the gender hearing issue is an interesting point and I think
probably one step might be to contextualize it a bit more, not to say you
haven't already?
It could probably be said that in the business environment of today men
tend to compete in a narrow let's get this done way.  That is not to
include all industries but with respect to an office, results oriented
career, I would suggest it is.  
I think that this is a positive issue for women because they will be able
to think differently about how to solve things.
This is quite an extension from hearing, but I think it has to be with
being less fact-comparison these are statisitces based living, following
the Norman Rockwell family where women were mainly housewives, men begin
increasingly to work info-based work, not to say women weren't working
outside the home!  ...Now, a greater number of women than men are going to
college.
I think the idea of sound sensitivity due to a baby's cry, that
conditioning is very important too in a women's sensitivity ability.
Further having the sound dynamics at high frequencies being off in cheaper
systems.
It seems that to put both abilities together, on the one side to hear most
everything, and the other to be able to focus on just one thing are very
important, rational vs intuitive processes.
I also think that while women do already have an inborn noise ability, they
also can be driven to focus, and men the opposite.  Being male, I have
learned to listen to sound and determine what amp works, what speakers are
best grounded, etc.  not only that but what music I choose to work with as
a DJ.
I hope I have added to the discussion some interesting points, and would
like to add some about looping.  Is looping a gender issue, would the
reptition and effects off it preclude one or another species more, or both?
 Maybe it's just a question of access still? Maybe men should have women
make decisions on their sound units?
(-; 
Mjh