Based on that seminal work, That Swimsuit Becomes You: Sex Differences in Self-objectification, Restrained Eating and Math Performance, the American Psychological Association made mention of a study notes that
young women in swimsuits performed significantly worse on the (maths) problems than did those wearing sweatersI can imagine some college girl, asked to put on a skimpy bikini, and then take a math test. Surprise! She didn't score as well as the women in regular school clothes. Clearly this implies the evil influence of the phallocracy. I'm sure with Lawrence Summers out of the way, this will end soon.
HedgeFundGuy - am 2007-03-21 16:26
Hedgehog (guest) meinte am 22. Mar, 05:19:
Those girls are HUGE! :)
Quotes from the paper:"Experiment 1. Method. Participants
Participants were 75 undergraduate women at Duke University <...> Mean weight was 299.2 kg (SD=24.3), ranging from 198 to 481 kg..."
"Experiment 1. Method. Participants
Participants were 82 undergraduate students at the University of Michigan <...> For women... mean weight was 300.9 kg..."
It doesn't look like a simple pound-to-kilo conversion error to me.
cb (guest) antwortete am 22. Mar, 19:12:
I don't think they make swimsuits that big, but if so, I'm glad I wasn't administering the test!
JoshC (guest) antwortete am 27. Mar, 20:20:
It's absolutely a conversion error. Somebody multiplied pounds by 2.2 to get kg instead of dividing. Dividing those astronomical numbers by 2.2 and rounding a bit yielded a mean of 136 lb (SD=11), range 90-219 lb, which is quite reasonable.The proper conversion would have yielded approximately 62 kg mean (5 kg SD), range 41-99 kg.
