User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/Special LTDI Preview: Ripped From the Wiki Headlines/@comment-1956487-20110208053020/@comment-1874924-20110208060356

Actually, a more accurate measure than brain size is the ratio of brain size to body size. On that score, I don't really know how or whether men and women differ. As for differences in aptitudes, it has been suggested that a lot of these differences go back to our hunter-gatherer roots. Men were the hunters, so they developed superior spatial perception skills because they had to be able to do things like navigate unfamiliar terrain during a hunt. Women, on the other hand, are better with directions because they were the gatherers, and so had to be able to do things like remember where a good fruit grove was located. Personally, I've never understood why some people insist that men and women are completely interchangeable.

I hadn't originally intended to preview this particular scene because, as you noted, it does have a minor spoiler in that it refers to the outcome of the first challenge. On a possibly related note (you'll forgive me for being coy here) the verse extract, with its emphasis on friendship and related topics, could be interpreted as foreshadowing a Courtney-Ezekiel friendship.