Male or Female?

[Trailspotter]

Park district horticulturist. Same difference.

When you spend several hours working a bed next to a playground you take the entertainment you can get.

Rosemary and Thyme (another double avatar for @deirdre)

 

[Cairenn]

In my opinion, there are several reasons why we see more men debunking.

1) many women are unconformable with challenging those they do not know, this is more true in us older women. Women are more likely to not disagree publicly. They will just leave a convo first.

2) many women with children have more child rearing obligations.

3)more men are more comfortable on computers, this is rapidly changing

There is one area where I am seeing a lot of women speaking up and that is in farming and in trying to educate folks about modern farming, the use of GMO seeds, animal ag and such

 

[Efftup]

Rosemary and Thyme (another double avatar for @deirdre)

mmmmmm Felicity Kendall!!! I still would.


It;s a really good program actually. They are both great actresses.

 

[MHolmes]

I dont think they, (ISF), want more women in their circles, they want more "intellectual" "evolved" (ie atheists) women. and for that the current women need to start reaching out to college campuses. Organize the college girls, encourage on-campus FEMALE "sceptic groups", and once those gals start joining the 'online sceptic sites' as members, theyll tell you if you need to change something about the site.

Personally i dont care how many sceptic women there are. I care how many women are READING the sceptic sites and/or at least talking amongst themselves about these issues.

I realize that this is an ancient thread (by internet standards) but I just got here so it is new to me. Given my demographics, I figured I should check-in here...and, for the record, I concur. I was reading this thread and thinking that based on my own anecdotal, totally non-scientific evidence, I would tend to believe women are more skeptical, we are just less inclined to engage in debate about it. Of course, I am basing that belief on a sample-size of exactly two other females, both of whom share my DNA. I am married to a male, Catholic, conspiracy theorist...so, I am very adept at just "agreeing to disagree"

I am a female, with a life science degree (biology....about as non-theoretical as you can get), I am an absolute skeptic....except for skinwalkers...I don't know if they are real or not, but I have lived in AZ & NM my whole life and seen and heard enough to just go ahead and give them the benefit of the doubt. The two dominant native trives in my state have absolutely nothing in common, and no shared beliefs, except for this one thing...so, that's not something I am going to mess with....but, beyond my fear of skinwalkers, I am a devout non-believer in pretty much everything else.....religion, government authority, ADHD, math....

 

[Ann K]

i saw this last night..speaking of critical thinking

Thanks to the revival of this zombie thread, I have just become aware of it. I looked up the article you referenced in 2015 and find that its conclusions have been revised.

UPDATE, July 11, 2017: Many rebuttals of the study this article originally reported on in 2014 have since been published. See this story for details: Revision: Female-named hurricanes are most likely not deadlier than male hurricanes

The headline for this story, therefore, has been updated from:
"Female-named hurricanes kill more than male hurricanes because people don't respect them, study finds"

to:
"Female-named hurricanes probably do NOT kill more people than male hurricanes"
Original post from June 2, 2014

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...because-people-dont-respect-them-study-finds/

This post discussed hurricanes from 1950 onwards ...but for the next 29 years, ALL hurricanes were given female names, meaning that for nearly half the years under discussion (and the early half at that, the years when one might expect that weather forecasts were not as good as they were in later times) there could be no meaningful comparisons drawn between male and female names.

You have quoted a very unskeptical article.

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As for myself, I spent my career working in a chemistry lab, starting as the fifth female in a 200-person lab, but ending when the proportion of the sexes became about 50-50. In my retirement I eventually got into commenting on several sites. It was a deliberate choice to use my name and not try to disguise my sex ...because when women try to do so by using pseudonyms, it just reinforces the stereotype of the comment-sphere being a "man's world". Yes, there are men who look down at women, but I believe they are more commonly found among the less intelligent fraction of the population, not many of whom are on Metabunk!

 

[Leekster]

Interesting.

My wife is definitely an atheist, a dedicated skeptic of Ghosts, Aliens, miracle cures.... ect.

But she simply isn't that interested in reading about science, astronomy, archeology, geology, astro-physics, quantum physics, or nature.

I can't get enough of that stuff. I'm an information and science junkie.

I wonder why there aren't more women into this stuff. Oh wait!! Another research opportunity!! (I'm sure it's been done)

 

[deirdre]

You have quoted a very unskeptical article.

the Washington Post unskeptical?!? say it ain't so. <that's sarcasm too.