[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.

In this remark Fisher attributes a characteristic cognitive style to women: gathering more information, integrating it into richer associative “patterns,” and considering a wider range of possible consequences. The contrast implied is with a more linear, selective, or single-track approach often stereotypically assigned to men. Read charitably, the claim highlights strengths in contextual reasoning—thinking that keeps social, emotional, and situational variables in view—rather than treating problems as isolated abstractions. At the same time, it raises questions about how much of such differences are biological, socialized, or context-dependent, and it risks being overgeneralized if taken as a universal rule rather than a tendency observed in particular studies or settings.