corollary: female strangers get better [any form of communication] response rates from [anybody]
How does that follow? Or do you intend to say that the observed effect is just a facet of a more general effect?
Female strangers get better response rates when e-mailing professors
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#12And this is a surprise to anyone?
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#13Well they should be aware that professors make up almost 99% of all rapists.
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#14So I've TA'ed for a little while now and I think the answer isn't anything fundamental how women are regarded or how man are being biased against. Men rarely, if ever, act as grateful as women when you help them. There's a long list of potential reasons for this, but I've found it nearly universally to be the case. Even though it's not politically correct, you're more likely to help the person who will thank you sinc…
My experience is not in line with yours. In my experience, answering calls and support questions, I've gotten plenty of guys who are grateful for the help. They might not gush about it, but they almost universally offer thanks for any help I give, it's just more in the guy-like "Thanks a lot, dude, I really appreciate it."
On the flip-side, in my experience (I run a MMO guild hosting site, so this is a demographic that's rife with drama), the women I've talked with have a much stronger tendency to get WAY vindictive. I find harshly written emails (on that rare occasion) tend to come from women moreso than men. The men I've helped, when sending an email concerning something like billing or whatnot, tend to be more chill about things "Hey, I noticed X and it doesn't seem to be in line with what I was expecting. What's up?", vs the emails I've gotten from women for similar issues that go something like "What the hell? I don't know what you guys are doing, but if this issue isn't resolved immediately, I'm going to dispute the charge" (mind you, that might be an initial correspondence).
None of this is universal, but those are some of the tendencies I've experienced.
Re: Female strangers get better response rates when e-mailing professors
#15It is just as likely that female professors are more likely to respond to female questions because they expect that females are more likely than males to listen to the answer. Why do we have to jump right to a presumption of negative sexual bias?
Isn't expecting that females to be more likely to listen than males a negative sexual bias?
I think the point GP was trying to make is that this isn't necessarily a case of male professors being nice to women just because they are attracted to them (or assume that they might be attractive) and that there is a possibility of sex. (or something to that effect)
It's still 'sexism' if a professor responds better to female students than male students because he perceives female students as being more receptive and grateful for the help. But not necessarily in a negative "I'm hoping to get laid" sort of way.
Re: Female strangers get better response rates when e-mailing professors
#16Of course male professors answer females at a higher response rate. Those in the academia world rarely have hot wives. Professors get married later in life (this has to do with them having no lives outside of the lab). They then have to settle for less than what they want so they marry an intelligent woman who is in that 4-6.5 range on a scale from 1-10. And when young melissamiller comes emailing, she serves as a welcome distraction to grading papers. Stop making this out to be a big deal.
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#17corollary: female strangers get better [any form of communication] response rates from [anybody]
How does that follow? Or do you intend to say that the observed effect is just a facet of a more general effect?
I'd say that in general:
* Women are *far* better at communication than men
* Men are more likely to respond to women, than
women are likely to respond to men.
Re: Female strangers get better response rates when e-mailing professors
#18So I've TA'ed for a little while now and I think the answer isn't anything fundamental how women are regarded or how man are being biased against. Men rarely, if ever, act as grateful as women when you help them. There's a long list of potential reasons for this, but I've found it nearly universally to be the case. Even though it's not politically correct, you're more likely to help the person who will thank you sinc…
That's been my experience as well. Guys are more arrogant and feel more entitled than girls and overall I have noticed that girls are more willing to put in the effort and do the work to get a good grade whereas guys will come to you with a sob story and all their initial enthusiasm about doing better will fizzle out within a week.
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#19corollary: female strangers get better [any form of communication] response rates from [anybody]
Try it on IRC sometime. You'll find that within seconds, pretending to be a girl is instantly advantageous. Just don't overdo it.
Re: Female strangers get better response rates when e-mailing professors
#20Of course male professors answer females at a higher response rate. Those in the academia world rarely have hot wives. Professors get married later in life (this has to do with them having no lives outside of the lab). They then have to settle for less than what they want so they marry an intelligent woman who is in that 4-6.5 range on a scale from 1-10. And when young melissamiller comes emailing, she serves as a we…
You have broken the record for most unfounded generalizations in one paragraph.