The intent of the post, sure. Women and men are equally capable of anything.
But absolutely nobody creating sewing patterns is sitting down and going “alright the integral of e to the x dx is…” Or remembering their laplace transformations.
I love over-complicating things… but Calculus in a sewing pattern sounds really strange.
Unless… it is like for a space suit where you need to be accurate? Or making something for a form fitting hard surface?Quilters would like a word.
where you need to be accurate
Only if you want clothes that fit
Of course they don’t mean women pull out a calculator, a notebook, and start doing calculations, anymore than when a person throws a ball at a target they pull out some graph paper and start calculating parabolic arcs and all that shit. They’re saying we do it instinctively, and if we’re good at doing it instinctively then we can do it intellectually.
I’m not saying I couldn’t see cases where I would seriously consider using calculus in a sewing pattern, but it’s really not used in sewing pattern creation basically ever unless someone already knows it and has a very specific use case. I suspect the OP meant “calculations” or something similar and mis-typed.
Source: I still remember a fair amount of calculus and I sew
IIRC back when “computer” is a person rather than an object, it was a woman’s job.
And even when computers started to come around, data entry was still largely female dominated. It wasn’t until late ron that it became a male dominated space. Largely due to the takeover of video games, which were in America heavily marketed towards only boys and not often marketed towards girls.
So it was always an object?
honestly, drawing patterns only uses “calculus” and “trig” because those are the arbitrary names given to the thought processes that blend the proper melding of mind to motion
I can’t help but feel that we aren’t even close to matching the intelligence of women.
In my town the fact girls were worse than boys at maths was addressed, education of girls was improved
Now girls are better than boys at maths and no one seems to care
Whenever I hear someone slopping that “adage” out, I silently note that they’ve no idea how many of the Apollo astronauts were able to return to Earth safely. (It rhymes with “female mathematicians”, btw.)
All of them, the answer is all of them. Follow me for more English hacks!
whats really funny to me is people make this claim, but any good study that looks for differences finds none or that women are very slightly better at math and spatial reasoning
Got a good link to read and share?
Someone passed this before; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-level_task
This finds the opposite and proves the original conjecture, that men perform better than women on spatial tasks
32% of college women failed the test, compared to 15% of college men
The origins of computer programming are also intertwined with textiles, as the first punch card programs emerged as part of weaving in the early 1800s (Jacquard looms).
Also interesting: trans people in addition to cis women are historically associated with textile production in many cultures. Trans programmer socks = modern day trans weaver.
