In the episode 9 thread the conversation was drifting towards girls up at the front line. The SAO Nerve Gear from what I gather interact directly with the brain. Now recent studies have shown women and men of the same IQ actually do have different brain structures. Men have more grey matter (processors), whilst women have more white (interconnections).
So with this in mind do you think there would be any advantage between women and men? For example I think that women would have a tiny advantage since it doesn't matter how fast you can process if data gets bottled up at the interconnects, so I think that more white matter should be information flows quicker and therefore allowing the gears to interact quicker.
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