Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent

seattle-pk writes "Males are apparently clueless when it comes to interpreting sexual intent from females, according to a recent study (PDF) from Indiana University's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Men were found commonly to perceive more sexual intent in women's behavior than women were intending to convey. (A campus survey showed that 68% of college females had an experience where a male mistook signs of friendliness for affection.) However, the study also shows that men were quite likely to misperceive sexual interest as friendliness. 'Rather than seeing the world through sex-colored glasses, men seemed just to have blurry vision of sorts, overall,' according to the article. If you're a male who ever mistook the meaning of a barista's smile, looks like you're not alone."

Comments

Re:Sample bias

[Culture20]

Seems you've never been to Bloomington (the town IU is housed within). It's an island of blue in a sea of red (and is a local magnet for blue as a result). So, there needs to be some revision:

1)men think blowing up foreigners is wrong, even if the foreigners in question have every intention of blowing them up
2) men reached puberty within past 10 years [no change there because I don't understand the connotation].
3) men are caucasian[northern-europeanand hispanic], african, indian, native-american, other-asian and often run around screaming in protest rallies
4) men do not remember any American president before Bush jr. and he is like, old - you know. [again, no change, these are still youngsters we're talking about]
5) men never held hands with a girl, but each have 14 zettabytes of pron [I'm leaving this one here because it's hilarious. You think IU is backwater, then come to this conclusion? What do you think kids in small towns do for fun with the utter dearth of places to go? Oh wait, you're thinking of CS students; carry on.]
6) all men know about the man-o-centric male-ocracy is what they learn in their required modern-feminism course[s].
7) men speak only English, and not well, especially if they live in the international student housing. The indian guys speak english okay, but the grad students from china have issues sometimes, but still refuse to speak chinese.

Re:I work in a bar

[hexed_2050]

sufferage? You're telling me women suffered lately? I'm not sure about that because if I remember correctly women have developed quite a few rights. One that I can think of off the top of my head is women's suffrage.

Re:Or, on the other hand...

[Dun Malg]

There is a known condition, Asberger's syndrome, which identifies people who are bad at understanding non verbal communication. People with Asperger Syndrome are more than just bad at understanding nonverbal communication. I know a lot of nerds like to pretend their social issues are from AS, but if they can hold a reasonably normal conversation with someone, and don't display regular repetitive motor behaviors, it ain't AS.

"Fuck you! I have Ass-Burgers!"

"No, you're just an alienated fat guy who got picked on as a kid like I did. You just let it turn you into a dick."