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News flash: Women are more people-oriented while men are more thing-oriented, on average (1, 2). I don't think this is grounds for "All men should communicate
by pdubs1 6y ago
News flash:
Women are more people-oriented while men are more thing-oriented, on average (1, 2).
I don't think this is grounds for "All men should communicate like women" or
"Women's style of communication is more productive in [name some male-oriented group]", or "We should prioritize women's communication style in [highly technical groups which rarely include women due to biologically factual statistical differences in occupational orientation ^]", which is a dubious proposition.
(^ = differences between women and women in interest levels and at the tails of achievement in "thing"/"systems" oriented technology occupations -- see citations 1 & 2)
Notice the pattern.
Look at how much usage of words related to "patriarchy", "misogyny", "institutional racism", "diversity and inclusion", "social justice" have increased in NYT and other mainstream media sources from 2010-2020 (3, 4).
We see this again and again in media. Here is some hard data on this mentality and its pervasion of politics, media, entertainment, -- an obvious social engineering effort to anyone paying attention over the last 10-15 years.
Interestingly enough OP's particular study would not be here on HN if it had any other result.
I highly doubt a sample size of 34 for something as ridiculous sounding as "community smell" is going to be in anyway groundbreaking, at least when compared to actual substantial research on the topic of male vs female occupational interests.
The 2nd study here has 500,000 participants, for example. Not 34.
Bottom line: Identity politics is a worthless, and came into vogue in order to dissolve the Occupy Wallstreet movement which sprang up in the aftermath of the 2008-early 2010's Recession. (5).
[1] Gendered Occupational Interests: Prenatal Androgen Effects on Psychological Orientation to Things Versus People -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166361/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166361/
[2] Men and Things, Women and People: A Meta-Analysis of Sex Differences in Interests -- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38061313_Men_and_Things_Women_and_People_A_Meta-Analysis_of_Sex_Differences_in_Interests https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38061313_Men_and_Th...
[3] The NYTimes is Woke "Many trends develop over decades but I’ve never seen change so rapid as the breathtaking success of what one might call social justice concerns. Beginning around 2010-2014 there appears to have been a inflection point. Here from Zach Goldberg on twitter are various words drawn from Lexis-Nexis."
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/the-nytimes-is-woke.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/th...
[4] Zach Goldberg on twitter "1/n Spent some time on LexisNexis over the weekend. Depending on your political orientation, what follows will either disturb or encourage you. But regardless of political orientation, I'm sure we can all say 'holy fucking shit'" https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1133440945201061888 https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1133440945201061888
[5] Discussion on how identity politics conveniently sprang up as a counter-movement to deliberately disrupt up the Occupy Wallstreet movement, which is corroborated by the timelines of sources 3 and 4 above.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1wecyn/identity_politics_killed_occupy_wall_street/ https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1wecyn/identity...
- pdubs1 6y agoRe: Source 3 -- Here is a better view of one of the images in their article. It shows data for SJW-related buzz words-- word frequency over time. https://fee.org/media/34425/nyt.jpg https://fee.org/media/34425/nyt.jpg