A soon-to-be-published study ogles women who ogle while they ovulate: “I Only Have Eyes for You: Ovulation Redirects Attention (But Not Memory) to Attractive Men,” Uriah S. Anderson, Elaine F. Perea, D. Vaughn Becker, Joshua M. Ackerman, Jenessa R. Shapiro, Steven L. Neuberg and Douglas T. Kenrick, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, article in press […]
Tag: Women
%-of-men vs. %-of-women
Further data from our What Percentage of All Statistics Are Pointless? project — a comparison of google search results for the phrase “percentage of men” versus a search for “percentage of women”:
Hammering, in ten persons
To research a difference between men and women, discussable results can be obtained by testing only five men and five women. Such is evident from this experiment: “Trade-offs between force and accuracy in human hammering performance” Duncan J. Irschick and Justin Henningsen University of Massachusetts 5 Women, 5 Men 5 trials per treatment 3 Nail […]
Lower Working-Class Women’s Expletives
Expletives of Lower Working-Class Women, published in 1992 in the journal Language in Society, is a rare sociolinguistic study of this inherently provocative topic. “This article,” wrote author Susan Hughes of the University of Salford, “sets out to look at the reality of the swearing used by a group of women from a deprived inner-city […]