>but I still feel mathematically handicapped compare to her (and compared the first girl too). Just last night my wife (who has a PHD in psychology) was setting up a statistical test for me. I may know something about calculus, but if statistics gets deeper than averages and medians, I am lost! This had to do with some kind of T-test. Dont ask me what the rest of the jargon was. -- Lawrence Lile Senior Project Engineer Toastmaster, Inc. Division of Salton, Inc. 573-446-5661 voice 573-446-5676 fax Wouter van Ooijen Sent by: pic microcontroller discussion list 02/18/2004 03:45 PM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: Subject: Re: [OT:] Women in Engineering > So my advice: engineers should not marry with other engineers, IMHO. Apparently I like beta-girls. My first long-lasting relation was one of three (out of 300) electronics students (even though girls were far more common in my field - computers / maths). And her specialism was not one of the sissy things like datacommunications, radio stuff or other low-current low-voltage things: she specialised high-voltage high-current things like explosive isolation breakdown in power cables at 300kV. A pity her mother did not like me. My next girlfriend (and now wife) studied physics, and again not one of the sissy subjects (she did her major in theoretical phyiscs - something with theoretical particles that even high-energy engineers think are absurd). Nowadays she has drifted far from that field, but I still feel mathematically handicapped compare to her (and compared the first girl too). Our youngest son has both her intellect and my practical/experimental attitude. He has shown remarkeable interest in my soldering iron (2y). Soon I will have to lock up my equipment real good. Wouter van Ooijen -- ------------------------------------------- Van Ooijen Technische Informatica: www.voti.nl consultancy, development, PICmicro products -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body