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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jenk
- From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
- Subject: Re: The BEM Test
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.193154.1681@microsoft.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 19:31:54 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <BzzoAJ.Kwo@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BzzoAJ.Kwo@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >psychological test called the Bem Sex Role Inventory. This test lists
- >sixty adjectives that refer to human beings, some "masculine," some
- >"feminine," and some neutral (but you don't know which are which until
- >you complete the test). You are asked how well these adjectives describe
- >you; and whether you assign yourself a preponderance of masculine or
- >feminine adjectives, determines your "sex type."
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- Well, I assigned myself 12 feminine and 12 masculine. What does *that*
- mean? ;>
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- >I urge you to draw your own conclusions from this test.
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- Seems rather rooted in sex-roles to me; would probably measure which
- gender-role someone is suited for.
-
- -jen
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- >Lenore Levine
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