资料题：The word accepted" in the last sentence of the first paragraph roughly means（　）。

Women are, on the whole, more verbal than men.They are good at language and verbal reasoning, while men tend to be skilled at tasks demanding visual-spatial (视空的) abilities.In fact, along with aggression, these are the most commonly accepted differences between the sexes.Words are tools for communicating with other people, especially information about people.They are mainly social tools.Visual and spatial abilities are good for imagining and handling objects and for communicating information about them.Are these talents programmed into the brain? In some of the newest research in neurophysiology (神经生理学), it hes been suggested that when it comes to the brain, males are specialists while woman are generalists.But no one knows what, if anything, this means in terms of the abilities of the two sexes.Engineering is both visual and spatial, and it's true that there are relatively few women engineers.But women become just as skilled a men at shooting a rifle or driving a car, tasks that involve visual-spatial skills.They also do equally well at programming a computer, which is neither visual nor spatial.Women do, however, seem less likely to fall in love with the objects themselves.We all know men for whom machines seem to be extensions of their identity.A woman is more likely to see her car, rifle, or computer as a useful tool, but not in itself fascinating.