I knew it all along.. didn't need to see these stats.. one just has to look at the NEW MEMBERS that join chess.com each day.. it's 80-90% males, most days. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but the majority of the time that's pretty close to the mark!
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SchuBomb wrote:
I just wanted to discuss the fate of the first two female grandmasters, Nona Gaprindashivili and Maia Chiburdanidze.
First of all, for Nona. I understand that FIDE awarded her the title after only one Grandmaster norm, for some kind of special reason. My question is: did she ever eventually achieve more grandmaster norms such that she would have earned the grandmaster title without FIDE intervention?
My question about Maia is, since Susan Polgar is talked about as the first woman to gain the grandmaster title the proper way, how did she get her title? Did she get some similar FIDE intervention? Would she have gained the title without the intervention?
Not much information seems to exist on the internet about this subject.
Did you get the answers to your questions? If not, let's try again.
"Nevertheless, about 96% of the actual difference between genders could be explained by the statistical fact that the extreme values from a large sample are likely to be larger than those from a small one."
I had a suspicion that that might be the major factor (I know just enough about statistics to be dangerous, haha). It's an effect I've read about before in the context of Cretaceous extinction rates, of all things. Interesting that someone actually studied it. And 16:1? Yikes.