I think the comments on logical thinking in this thread aren't terribly helpful. Notwithstanding the fact that:
- these differences are likely to be marginal at best at the 'whole-of-population' level, and thus that it's perfectly likely that females with an interest in GSG's are just as capable of having the 'base required logical thinking capacity' to play them (which, I might add, isn't high); and
- the quality of human logic, from either gender, is generally terrible. Further, the quality of logic on these forums (and every other forum I've seen, beyond a specific philosophy forum) isn't great (some individuals are very good, most individuals not so much) suggests very strongly that the base level of logic required to play and enjoy PDS GSG's isn't very high at all!
...it's also worth noting that at the end of the day, logic is only as good as premises, and in theory (if we're going with the brain structure differences angle), while it may be the case that female brains are marginally less comfortable with rigid logical processes, the fact that they're marginally better at big-picture thinking would suggest that the the overall quality of their logical arguments (on average, over the gender) need not be worse and indeed could be better, in terms of the quality of the actual decision making. Ie, narrow premises and perfect logic do not necessarily a good decision make, and sometimes 'fuzzier' logic with better premises can come to an overall more helpful conclusion. Indeed, for large, complex problems with multiple parameters like GSGs (ie, a mess of overlapping premises and conclusions), human brains tend* not to deal with them 'logically' (in the strict sense of the word - and if we're talking logic, using it in the non-strict sense of the word is a little silly), but rather with much broader, fuzzier decision-making.
* I'm not saying that no humans deal with them logically, there are indeed some on these forums that I would expect play very logically - just that most don't.
