Re: UKNM: Search Engines digression

[Stefan Magdalinski]

Felix Velarde wrote:

> 

> 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

> 

>

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> 


Thank you. I'll ask them.


> 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.


Are you sure? all I could find was an email correspondance course in

English as a Foreign language. 



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