Word: excellence
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...brain function. Male and female brains are irrefutably different: in developing fetuses, higher levels of testosterone promote not only the maturation of male genitalia but also the “masculinization” of the brain, resulting in sexually-dimorphic cerebral structures that are designed to excel in certain tasks...
...these reasons, it is unsurprising to find statistical evidence that men and women reason differently. While men excel at spatial tasks and mathematical reasoning, women tend to perform better on tests of perceptual speed and mathematical calculations. This is not to say one gender is smarter than another—or that one can accurately predict the behavior or ability of individuals—but rather that sex differences correlate with differences in the means of the respective populations...
...temperature drops and ice blankets the ground and our souls, we can’t help but start thinking about the future. Warm, picture-perfect days of summer…and which desk for what company we will be sitting at while entering data for hours into Microsoft Excel for our summer internship...
...choosing students for the poll, The Crimson ran a program through Microsoft Excel that randomly selected names in a directory of the undergraduate student body...
...think. Or "Everyone's looking at my fat stomach" or "I can't go to that meeting without having a drink." Part mentor, part coach, part scold, the cognitive therapist questions such beliefs: Do you really screw up at work all the time, or like most people, do you excel sometimes and fail sometimes? Is everyone really looking at your stomach, or are you overgeneralizing about the way people see you? The idea is that the therapist will help the patient develop new, more realistic beliefs...