If you’re not a football fan, here’s another interesting use of your time. Go here to participate in a test of how good you are at identifying whether or not men and women are interested in one another in a speed dating environment: https://www.indiana.edu/~abcwest/webexp/
When you’re done, you can see how others did here.
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5 Comments
Crissy · February 2, 2009 at 11:50 am
This was a neat experiment. I rated all the guys fairly low to begin with and for the most part did not change my answers after the short video clips (with the exception of three, which i thought acted more confident in person than by just their pictures). I was really good at predicting the guys’ reactions better than the girls. I think its due in part that females are much better at hiding how they feel towards someone for lack of wanting to hurt their feelings. Plus, my perception of guys who do the whole speed dating thing is that either they really cant find a date on their own, or they are just in it for a one night stand sort of deal- do in order to get either or, they become intersted in anyone.
Laura Freberg · February 2, 2009 at 2:48 pm
I haven’t taken the test myself, yet, but these are very interesting observations! I believe the researchers found that both men and women are poor in judging the women. I thought that was interesting. In my own experience, I have often thought that men judged other men well and women judged other women well, but apparently that’s not what the data show.
msirna · February 3, 2009 at 11:08 pm
I agree with Chrissy, I think it’s easier to predict the guy’s reactions because I feel girls are better at hiding how they truly feel. I think girls are for the most part better listeners, which could contribute to them being better at sending body clues to let the guy know they are paying attention, whereas guys aren’t as good at hiding their distracted mind. Which would lead to it being harder to predict the girls reactions.
jforsberg · February 6, 2009 at 12:45 pm
It’s no surprise that women may be able to hide their feelings more easily. Women in the United States are socialized to be more polite and reserved, especially in conversation. Women have more practice at masking distaste because they are expected to maintain a demeanor of friendliness even in situations that make them feel uncomfortable. Males are not encouraged to explore emotions as much as their female counterparts and don’t have as much experience in listening as msirna said.
Mhusband · February 6, 2009 at 5:47 pm
To the contrary of what everyone else is saying, I was better at predicting what the women’s interest level (60%) apposed to the guys (only 40%). I think I’m pretty good at judging how women would perceive the character of those guys just based on looks. I was always trying to look at the guys body language to tell if he was interested or not, but I have a feeling that men are always interested, or at least more than women. I thought that was a really interesting experiment and having to rate the guys was pretty entertaining. I’m very interested to see exactly what they figure out with this study when it’s finally over.
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