On 13 Mar 2002 06:45:18 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenmlin) wrote: > I noticed that when the poster pretend to be a female (or is one in real life), > people in the group'd bend backward to do his/her homework.
Kemmy, I have thought before that something-like-that might be true. But your statement of it is certainly imprecise. Are you judging 100% by female-stereotype names? Is there another way posters are "pretending to be female"? Or are you relying on behavioral stereotype -- and saying that warm and friendly notes or timid notes get more numerous replies than hostile demands? You think that the *homework* notes are especially prone to this differential response? Personally, if my first reaction is that there ought to be *little* sex bias on homework because homework Questions most often are dismissed, period. I think. Would you count it as 'bending over backward' to do homework, if the post carefully avoids the answer? - The way that I occasionally respond is: to be non-responsive to the actual question that the teacher is asking, while I try to be informative. I hope that it will be educational and yet annoying to someone who is merely looking for the easy plug-in-the-answer. But I think I do that without notice of the name. -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
