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  • From: Michael S Czeiszperger <czei AT webperformanceinc.com>
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: NYTimes article: He-Mails, She-Mails: Where Sender Meets Gender
  • Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 13:44:36 -0400


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On Thursday 17 May 2001 01:28 pm, you wrote:
> In fact, you can read some of the conclusions themselves here:
> http://www.cpsr.org/publications/newsletters/issues/2000/Winter2000/herring
>.html (This is a lit review of the previous studies with full references.
> From here you read the studies complete with numbers).

Great list of references; thanks for posting the link. Having the original
research papers is crucial, since most writers aren't qualified to draw
conclusions from scientific research.

Its interesting that the article is so different from my experience, having
participated in USENET since the early eighties, including way too many hours
spent in a group that was unscientifically determined to be more than half
female. (rec.equestrian) My experience there was absolutely 180 degrees apart
from the following clip from the article mentioned above:

In asynchronous CMC such as takes place in discussion lists and newsgroups on
the Internet and Usenet, males are more likely to post longer messages, begin
and close discussions in mixed-sex groups, assert opinions strongly as
"facts", use crude language (including insults and profanity), and in
general, manifest an adversarial orientation towards their interlocutors
(Herring 1992, 1993, 1996b, forthcoming; Kramarae & Taylor 1992; Savicki et
al. 1996; Sutton 1994). In contrast, females tend to post relatively short
messages, and are more likely to qualify and justify their assertions,
apologize, express support of others, and in general, manifest an "aligned"
orientation towards their interlocutors (Hall 1996; Herring 1993, 1996b;
Savicki et al. 1996).

Of course, my anecdote isn't any better than the author's anecdotes.

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Michael S Czeiszperger
czei AT webperformanceinc.com


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