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  • verb Present participle of systemize.

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Examples

  • Simon Baron-Cohen, director of Cambridge University's Autism Research Centre, has shown in past research that men are more likely than women to score low on tests of empathy but high on tests of "systemizing" - recognizing rules and patterns - characteristics that, in the extreme, define autism.

    Signs of the Times 2009

  • These perfectly capable "systemizing" women are just one example from history.

    Attention! Men and Women May Be Different 2007

  • Nevertheless, her conclusion that Simon Baron-Cohen's research in autism explains why "men are over-represented in the 'systemizing' vocations such as car repair, oil drilling and electrical engineering," is ahistorical scientism.

    Attention! Men and Women May Be Different 2007

  • He argues that 'systemizing', a tendancy to think in terms of rules, laws and systems, is more prevalent in some, particularly males, and is expressed as autism or Asperger's syndrome in its extreme form.

    Mind Hacks: Edge debate on sex, autism and engineering 2005

  • He argues that 'systemizing', a tendancy to think in terms of rules, laws and systems, is more prevalent in some, particularly males, and is expressed as autism or Asperger's syndrome in its extreme form.

    Mind Hacks: April 2005 Archives 2005

  • Other things besides earnings can increase your company's sales price, such as systemizing it.

    BiggerPockets Forums 2008

  • It's possible to have either sort of brain or, more precisely, to be more than averagely systemizing or empathizing whatever sex you are.

    Archive 2009-07-01 TK 2009

  • This somewhat reminds me of "The Essential Difference" by Simon Baron-Cohen which talked about male brains being more systemizing and female brains being more emphasizing, on average.

    "If 'brain sex' sounds like gender stereotyping, Dr. Moir says there is a twist: Brain sex doesn't always match biological sex." Ann Althouse 2009

  • It's possible to have either sort of brain or, more precisely, to be more than averagely systemizing or empathizing whatever sex you are.

    What's your star sign? Women and Woo. TK 2009

  • I eventually ended up building a tool for systemizing a business.

    The E-Myth Revisited: A Review 2008

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