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Re:Women Are Sort Of More Tentative Than Men, Aren't They? by dkarl on Friday September 04, 2009 @12:09PM (#805077)
It's easy to imagine the contrary being true, that women would be more tentative in all situations, so it's a real finding. It would be even more interesting to compare results across class and geography.

However, one thing bothers me: Palomares is so smug about knocking down stereotypical differences between the sexes, but his analysis depends on stereotypical differences between the sexes. He's just shuffling the stereotypes around, discarding one by depending on another. It's hardly something to be self-righteous about.

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Re:Women Are Sort Of More Tentative Than Men, Aren't They? by ekiru on Friday September 04, 2009 @04:23PM (#805598)
In fact, some psychology textbooks(at least in high school) affirmatively claim that females are more tentative than males in all situations. This research seems to disprove that. It's useful to disprove untrue things that were formerly believed to be true.
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