Comments on: A Gender Correlation to Topical LDS Group-Blogging?

By: moana

moana — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 05:55:22 +0000

it could be that womens’ online time is more structured (you know, being your wife, bearing your children, cooking your dinner) than is yours, dudes. you have time to debate and not be topical because you have a bit more time to do so, having wives and all.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 25 May 2005 22:53:15 +0000

It’s because chicks operate from some quasi-jungian hive mind and all dudes are islands. Duh.

By: Mark Martin

Mark Martin — Wed, 25 May 2005 21:38:41 +0000

“Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.”

Source: Scientific American, April 25, 2005, “Turn Me on, Dead Man” by Michael Shermer
http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=000EB977-12BE-1264-8F9683414B7FFE9F

Kaimi, thank you for providing my first opportunity to quote this since reading it this morning!

By: Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 25 May 2005 20:20:57 +0000

Kaimi — No. Never been to Arizona.

By: Kaimi

Kaimi — Wed, 25 May 2005 20:20:05 +0000

By the way, Jenn, I just saw your last name and I think I know you. Did I go on a double date with you about eight, nine years ago?

(And if so, how have you been? What are you up to?)

By: fMhLisa

fMhLisa — Tue, 24 May 2005 22:21:05 +0000

I actually kinda like Johnna’s idea– topics add weight to the other side of the big blogging-guilt balance scale. 2oz of blogging guilt= 2oz of deadline guilt . . . ah balance!

Mostly though, I think Kaimi is trying too hard.

By: Kaimi

Kaimi — Tue, 24 May 2005 15:12:00 +0000

Just for Steve’s benefit, I’m considering adding “vomitous” and “poaching-filled”* to our adjective list. Then, once every 177,662 times** the page is viewed, it will read “Quite possibly the most vomitous, yet poaching-filled***, onymous group blog . . . ” Of course, one downside is that our page views will spike as Steve hits refresh 500 times a day.

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*Is there a better adjective for that concept? Rosalynde probably knows one off the top of her head. Anyone who uses “iatrogenic” in a casual sentence . . .

**422 x 421.

***Unless Rosalynde saves us with a pithier adjective.

By: Nate Oman

Nate Oman — Tue, 24 May 2005 15:06:25 +0000

Steve: Take heart. If you weren’t able to engage in a lot of hand-wringing about the vomitous, poaching ways of T&S during business hours, you would be reduced to nothing but due diligence, or whatever it is that corporate and securities lawyers do.

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Tue, 24 May 2005 14:46:50 +0000

For all those who are decrying Kaimi’s research sample, here is an interesting article in the NY Times today that says women are less competitive than men. The article’s author provides cites to a few studies. Wonder if this phenomenon has anything to do with the gender composition (and substance) of the blogs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/24/opinion/24tierney.html?hp

By: Frank McIntyre

Frank McIntyre — Tue, 24 May 2005 14:32:39 +0000

Did Kaimi hurt your feelings, Steve? Are you gonna cry now? Maybe we can get Adam to come and apologize to you.

Kaimi, I don’t think it’s fair for you to make my only relevant comment in your original post. Are you trying to take away my living?