Women get hit (on)

[bobquasit]

Just made a post over at Feministing - there was a blog entry about a study that shows that people with female-sounding handles get hit on a lot more than people with male or ambigious-sounding handles.

Come on. Just how blindingly obvious does a fact have to be before someone won't spend money to verify it? Wasn't there ANYTHING more deserving that that money could have been spent on?

Comments

[stairflight.livejournal.com]

Didn't you once test this out in an online game where you played a character named Brandi or something?

[dancing-kiralee.livejournal.com]

As obvious as the fact is, science requires money be spent on it before the information is "accredited" and can be considered data. Only after it's data, can someone try to explain the phenomenon, or try to suggest ways to change it.

Maybe you don't care if this cultural fact changes, but I do.

Kiralee

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Well...

Thing is that The Obvious isn't always The True. Without something at least akin to a formal and scientific study we only have a set of anecdotes. And I'd suppose that there could be more information in the study than just that. I could see different settings and scenarios where the general trend might be different.