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- From: GORENTZ@KBS.MSU.EDU (John Gorentz)
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- Subject: Re: End-user on-line Motif tutorial
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 04:11:00 GMT
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- >Oh...here is a situation you are going to really like. We have some female
- >employees that just can not get the hand/eye co-ordination going with the
- >mouse. They always want to move their hand/mouse the _opposite_ direction they
- >want to move the pointer. We tried to figure out why this was. Turns out that
- >when the look at the terminal, they have some mental connection that says
- >they are in front of a mirror (where I am told some females spend some time)
- >and they do exactly everything _backward_ with the motor functions. The
- >only way we have been able to get them to move the pointer in the right
- >direction on the screen is to turn the mouse _upside down_. Yes...another
- >amazing but true story from the journals of learned behavior.
-
- Now, now. I'll be on your side if Hillary tries to have you thrown into a
- concentration camp for your PiC sexist observations, but what sample size are
- we talking about here? There are many females in our department who use mice
- -- clerical staff, professors, students, technicians, etc., and I've never
- heard of any of them having any difficulty like this. I suppose I could have
- just been unobservant, but there are millions of females who use computers
- with mice, and no word of this phenomenon has made its way into any trade
- journal articles I've ever read.
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