Online Gender Gap Shrinks, But Sexes Use Web Differentl

Post by **Taurec** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:47 pm

by Wendy Davis, Thursday, Dec 29, 2005 6:00 AM EST
THESE DAYS, WOMEN AND MEN go online in almost equal proportions, but what they do on the Web is another matter entirely. Men are more likely than women to check weather and news, download music, and get financial information; (ed: browse porn) women are more likely to look for health and medical information, use e-mail, and--clichéd though it may be--seek out maps and directions online than are men. Those are some of the findings of a new study that examines gender and Internet use, by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Read the rest....

Do they actually get paid by stating the obvious.. !!!?? If so I'm thinking about a career change.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:32 pm

I agree... statement of the bloody obvious... euh Tau, that a bad linky
ya gave or is it a subscription article?

Regards

Post by **Taurec** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:10 am

Uuugh ... fixed the link ...

Katyusha · Post by **Katyusha** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:48 am

Hmmm... and in my next career change...

Go look up how much they're paid. Considering how much we all have excellent senses of the obvious, we have a bright future as online journalists ahead.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:24 pm

Thx Tau... and nothing I haven't read before. Just written a different way

Regards

Jae · Post by **Jae** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:04 am

Hmm.. I'm really impressed. I never realized how superior male vision is! To able to see things so clearly as to be able to state a 6% difference (in most of the items listed as having a difference) as obvious.
I have to offer an acutal analysis of the study, by a woman of course.

I surely hope* that after you're all settled in your new well-paid careers of 'stating the obvious', none of you fall victim to your sexist stereotyped assump... er, I mean, to feminine wiles.

for the NYTimes-less wrote:{snipped article about drug hunter training}
Joint exercises like the one involving the Gentian bring to life the difficulties of intercepting drugs at sea.

When the Hondurans had their turn, it was feminine wiles, not weapons, that foiled their efforts.

The captain of the Chupacabras came down from the bridge, pointing a fake automatic rifle. The sailors fired their fake guns. The captain fell. Another gunman approached from the stern. The sailors jumped on top of him, wrestled his gun away and handcuffed him.

Then the sailors found a woman hiding in the engine room. They put cuffs on her, but did not close them tight. So she wiggled her hands free, grabbed her gun and shot the sailors.

"The woman always stumps them," Captain Pino said with a smile. "They have a hard time learning that women can be just as dangerous as men."

* I lie!!!

Post by **Taurec** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:49 am

It's a whole 6%, I mean it's only 2% that differs us from monkeys. *OINK!*

Porn 15% <- Liars !!! Like they would admit it...

They have a hard time learning that women can be just as dangerous as men."

Guess they don't watch the discovery channel in Honduras.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:56 am

@Jae
...our fatal weakness, I admit. *sighs*

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