By: Doc Merlin
Steve: The vast, vast majority of academic fields do not center around politically charged issues. Yes and the ones that are least politically charged and more objectively testable are less likely...
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Steve, I’m curious, do you teach in a field that you would consider part of that vast, vast majority? If you’re willing to say, in what general field do you teach?
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Doc Merlin: Yes and the ones that are least politically charged and more objectively testable are less likely to be leftist. Hence why Engineering is the most conservative department followed by...
View ArticleBy: Mavis Beacon
I would actually theorize that men are more interested in politics because of the competitive dimension. Political coverage and sports coverage have a lot in common.
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Dw: President Summers, you’re fired. It was a pretty sad situation when a comment on brains led to the feminists being able to force a man out of his job over the objections of the actual relevant...
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SenX: Now I will read her crime books if they are good and really enjoy some of them but I can’t think of a single science fiction book she has read. My wife and I fit the same categories. She did...
View ArticleBy: Frank Drackman
Its simple, in junior high when I was learning how to throw a curve ball, memorizing Ron Cey’s career statistics, and the Infield Fly Rule, my sister was banging guys. In High School when I was...
View ArticleBy: Mike
It has been my experience that women in our culture, for whatever reasons, are less likely to “geek out” over a subject. Whatever the area if interest for guys, there is a strong tendency to pick one...
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Have you considered cross-national differences in political interest among women? I know there’s a substantial amount of difference in the proportion of women involved in politics across countries, and...
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Women are more cooperative; men are more competitive. Politics these days emphasizes the horse-race and who has created political leverage. Due in part because of the evolution of the media, it’s...
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Frank Drackman: So its only natural I remember Mark Belanger’s uniform number (#7)the plot to every “Brady Bunch” episode and what a Hoffman degradation is while my sister is still banging guys Your...
View ArticleBy: Jacob
Is There Anything Good About Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men by Roy F. Baumeister has some interesting thoughts on why men are more into politics than women. His basic thesis is that men...
View ArticleBy: Joe
female dominated I rarely find the same level of obsession women never obsess about Lady Di, celebrities, child issues, appearance and so forth? to toss out all the stereotypical “women” issues?
View ArticleBy: KL
She is sexist too. She said that articles of interest for women are not written. So the name of the second king of Rome or the text of the Constitution of the Consulate or the doppler effect is a male...
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Women are more cooperative; men are more competitive So thats why there is an study showing that only men music groups do well than only women ones. Rolling Stones playing until the grave and beyond...
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Steve is right: Natural sciences( the only real ones) even biology are not politically charged. religion is not a political question. Only, the USA ( in the western world) a allows superstition to...
View ArticleBy: Sk
I’m not going to repeat what so many have said: “Why the difference? The most obvious explanation is that politics was historically a male-dominated sphere from which women were largely excluded. Only...
View ArticleBy: wolfefan
Frank Drackman for the humorous win, Mavis Beacon for the more serious win. It’s hard to tell Fox/MSNBC from ESPN in tone, approach, breathless hype of trivia, and overall value. People root for...
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Bill VOORHIES: Evolutionary psychology fully explains this is so obvious. We are everywhere in denial of our animal nature. Shhh. There are no patterns here, only uncorrelated accidental circumstances...
View ArticleBy: Carl the EconGuy
I’d be interested in the gender breakdown of users of Wikipedia. My guess is that it would be less male dominated than the contributorship, probably much less male dominated, maybe even close to...
View ArticleBy: Larry King Drackman
Men are more competitive, one of the best fights I ever saw in Med School was when one Male student answered a question about another Male students patient on rounds..you just don’t do that… The Female...
View ArticleBy: Tina Trent
Frank Drackman does a delightful job of demonstrating why women might choose to avoid the purile barnacalization of some political circles and comment threads, but I’d like to add a personal...
View ArticleBy: Mike
Joe: female dominated I rarely find the same level of obsession women never obsess about Lady Di, celebrities, child issues, appearance and so forth? to toss out all the stereotypical “women” issues?...
View ArticleBy: happycynic
There is no gender gap, there is a gender difference. Men are on average more interested and involved in national politics. Women are on average more interested and invovled in local politics (school...
View ArticleBy: Ricardo
Jacob: His basic thesis is that men tend to foster numerous and shallow relationships (and thereby, being networkers for government, business, etc.), and women tend to prefer intimate and deep...
View ArticleBy: Frank Drackman
Forget Politics, what is it with women and Shoes??? I mean, I dress well, one of the few MDs I know who still wears wingtips, my dead Grandfather’s who was a 1/2 size bigger than me, and was almost...
View ArticleBy: Ricardo
Tina Trent: the Tea Party movement is drawing women in droves. The New York Times/CBS poll of the Tea Partiers pegged it at 59% male. Maybe things are different in the ranks of the activists?
View ArticleBy: MDT
Ilya, The most obvious explanation is that politics was historically a male-dominated sphere from which women were largely excluded. Only in the last few decades has that begun to change in a major...
View ArticleBy: Frank Drackman
A Chick who builds model airplanes????!!!! I only did it for the glue. But do you like the 3 Stooges??? I mean really like them as in laugh out loud even if you’ve seen the episode 400 times. My...
View ArticleBy: jsl
Men are more likely to have spare time to dedicate to pursuits like reading for personal interest – or, say, editing wikipedia. http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2010/JF/feat/schie.htm It really...
View ArticleBy: Jonathan
Hey, here’s a novel idea: Let’s listen to what actual women have to say about the topic! Here’s one for you: Amanda Marcotte!
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[...] from twenty years ago, when young libertarians were an overwhelmingly male group. Considering that women are on average less interested in politics than men are in general, the percentage of...
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