Re: UKNM: Search Engines digression

[Felix Velarde]

On 2/10/98 I read:


>Felix Velarde wrote:

>>

>> On 1/10/98 I read:

>>

>

> > steve mynott <stevetightrope [dot] demon [dot] co [dot] uk>

>> >

>> >    humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. they

>> >learn - when

>> >they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.  -- 

>>robert

>> >heinlein

>>

>> Heinlein rarely included women in his philosophical considerations

>> (save as characters) - according to many studies (including one by

>> Cullen in 1994) women do tend to learn from others' experience,

>> whereas men are too competitive (or, according to my wife, dumb).

>

>

>> Something that came up when we were looking into this subject was

>> that males tend to prefer a single path on which they can win, and

>> females prefer to have the opportunity to succeed by a variety of

>> means. Which is maybe why, broadly speaking, females (especially

>> children) prefer one-to-one communications online while males 

>>prefer

>> open forum.

>

>I'm trying to find a way in which the conclusion of this comment is

>related to the premise, if not in downright contradiction of it. 

>guff,

>gov.


I was woolly last night, up late preparing a pitch... but def not 

guff guv, citations are, fyi: Yellhousan, 1989; Levin & Gordon 1989; 

DiMona & Herndon 1994; Sadker & Sadker 1994; Meunier 1993, 1995; 

contact Lydie Meunier for more information by fax on +918 744 1902 or

MII-GPMCLS [dot] UNIVIE [dot] AC [dot] AT (mailto:MII-GPMCLS [dot] UNIVIE [dot] AC [dot] AT)

An interesting talk on the subject: S Herring, Gender Differences in 

Computer-Mediated Communication: Bringing Familiar Baggage to the New 

Frontier - American Library Association annual convention, Miami, 

June 27th 1994, quoted at http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj


There is also a very interesting resource on these subjects at 


http://mypage.direct.ca/p/prossett/online.html discussing gender 

differences in email communication.


but you're right, my comments weren't self-supporting, probably 

because I was being slightly flippant at the time. sorry.


Felix Velarde


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