Comments on: Women make safer financial decisions when faced with sexual stereotypes http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/09/29/women-make-safer-financial-decisions-when-faced-with-sexual-stereotypes/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Re http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/09/29/women-make-safer-financial-decisions-when-faced-with-sexual-stereotypes/#comment-9368 Re Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:31:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=2801#comment-9368 The graph is not showing up for me. The graph is not showing up for me.

]]> By: Andy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/09/29/women-make-safer-financial-decisions-when-faced-with-sexual-stereotypes/#comment-9367 Andy Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:38:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=2801#comment-9367 The doi link isn't working for me. Can you double-check that it's correct? Thanks. Interesting research! The doi link isn’t working for me. Can you double-check that it’s correct? Thanks.

Interesting research!

]]> By: Luna_the_cat http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/09/29/women-make-safer-financial-decisions-when-faced-with-sexual-stereotypes/#comment-9366 Luna_the_cat Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:11:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=2801#comment-9366 What I find both frightening and depressing is just how mainstreamed sexism still is, and how there *are* still elements of "science" which are explicitly used to support it. For one recent example, check out Matt Ridley's article in the WSJ, http://tinyurl.com/34fybkb -- and worse, the associated comments, which frankly make me want to emulate Zuska's puking on shoes. It may be a personal failing of mine that I am not in there trying to shoot down what passes for reasoning, there, but I already have too many swamps to wade in. What I find both frightening and depressing is just how mainstreamed sexism still is, and how there *are* still elements of “science” which are explicitly used to support it. For one recent example, check out Matt Ridley’s article in the WSJ, http://tinyurl.com/34fybkb — and worse, the associated comments, which frankly make me want to emulate Zuska’s puking on shoes.

It may be a personal failing of mine that I am not in there trying to shoot down what passes for reasoning, there, but I already have too many swamps to wade in.

]]> By: Ed Yong http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/09/29/women-make-safer-financial-decisions-when-faced-with-sexual-stereotypes/#comment-9365 Ed Yong Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:57:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=2801#comment-9365 Exactly. Exactly.

]]> By: Chameleon http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/09/29/women-make-safer-financial-decisions-when-faced-with-sexual-stereotypes/#comment-9364 Chameleon Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:56:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=2801#comment-9364 Fancy just being reminded of your gender being enough to change your ability to complete a task. That happens all the time in daily life! Fancy just being reminded of your gender being enough to change your ability to complete a task. That happens all the time in daily life!

]]> By: Sophia Collins http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/09/29/women-make-safer-financial-decisions-when-faced-with-sexual-stereotypes/#comment-9363 Sophia Collins Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:41:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=2801#comment-9363 "The fact that gender stereotypes seem to affect men in the opposite way, as shown in the risk-aversion experiment, may help to widen the gender gap even further. Perhaps the knowledge that others are being negatively stereotyped, or that stereotypes don’t apply to you, makes people more confident." Or the fact that there are positive stereotypes telling you you're great makes people more confident? “The fact that gender stereotypes seem to affect men in the opposite way, as shown in the risk-aversion experiment, may help to widen the gender gap even further. Perhaps the knowledge that others are being negatively stereotyped, or that stereotypes don’t apply to you, makes people more confident.”

Or the fact that there are positive stereotypes telling you you’re great makes people more confident?

]]> By: amphiox http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/09/29/women-make-safer-financial-decisions-when-faced-with-sexual-stereotypes/#comment-9362 amphiox Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:24:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=2801#comment-9362 "Perhaps the knowledge that others are being negatively stereotyped" But in this scenario, which is the <i>negative</i> stereotype, that women are timid and risk-averse, or that men are reckless, risk-embracing hormone-addled lunatics? “Perhaps the knowledge that others are being negatively stereotyped”

But in this scenario, which is the negative stereotype, that women are timid and risk-averse, or that men are reckless, risk-embracing hormone-addled lunatics?

]]> By: Rhacodactylus http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/09/29/women-make-safer-financial-decisions-when-faced-with-sexual-stereotypes/#comment-9361 Rhacodactylus Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:21:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=2801#comment-9361 One thing I've always wondered is how this is all going to play out in 20, 30, or 40 years for a generation of kids who have been raised on sitcoms where the mom is a genius and the dad is lovable but mentally challenged. <a href="http://untitledvanityproject.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">~Rhaco</a> One thing I’ve always wondered is how this is all going to play out in 20, 30, or 40 years for a generation of kids who have been raised on sitcoms where the mom is a genius and the dad is lovable but mentally challenged.

~Rhaco

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