Researchers often study these kinds of signals using something called a point-light figure, a collection of dots arranged in a human form. The figure is supposed to convey minimal information, but simple manipulations--broadening the dots on the shoulder region or narrowing dots that represent the waist--can make figures seem more masculine or more feminine.There seems to be a profusion of 'science' studies making amazingly silly assumptions about behavioral sex differences from remarkably biased testing that seems to satisfy male assumptions about female thoughts, behaviors and motivations.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Stupid is as stupid does ...
Judging sex difference from points of masculine vs feminine 'lights' (The Way S/he Moves, by Rachel Zelkowitz, Science NOW Daily News, 9 September 2008).
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