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- From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
- Subject: Re: The BEM Test
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.080050.4544@netcom.com>
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- References: <BzzoAJ.Kwo@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 08:00:50 GMT
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- In article <BzzoAJ.Kwo@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >On the back of scratch paper from a campus recycling area, I found a
- >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
- >
- > [womens' terms: dependent. Mens': self-reliant]
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- >I urge you to draw your own conclusions from this test.
-
- The conclusion is that psychologists have found the "sexist" terms you
- quote to accurately describe the self-perceptions (on the average) of
- women and men.
-
- Didn't Wendy say that when she was still he, his doctor gave him such
- a test to see whether he would be better off as a he or a she? Be
- careful before you go off ranting and raving over such a test; it
- may be extremely valuable to some people.
-
- --
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- Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
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- Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!
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- "Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that
- they are not even superficial."
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- - Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay Science: 126)
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