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."

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Twofo butthole plugged

[Anonymous Coward]

Twofo is Dying is Dying

It is official; GNAA confirms: Twofo is Dying is Dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleagured slashdot trolling community when Google confirmed that Twofo troll posts had dropped yet again, now down to less that a fraction of 1 percent of all slashdot posts. Coming hot on the heels of a recent usenet survey which plainly states that Twofo trolling frequency has fallen, this news serves only to reinforce what we've known all along. Twofo trolls are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in a recent digg.com comprehensive trolling test.

You don't need to be one of the Slashdot moderators to predict Twofo Trolling's future. The writing is on the wall: Twofo trolling faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Twofo trolls because Twofo trolling is dying. Things are looking very bad for Twofo trolls. As many of us are already aware, Twofo trolling continues to decline in popularity. IP bans flow like a river of firewall rules.

"Twofo is Dying" trolls are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their core posters. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time trolls Daz and xyzzy only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Twofo trolls are dying.

Lets keep to the facts and look and the numbers.

Twofo Trolling leader Echelon states that there are about 7000 "twofo is dying" trolls. How many "Zeus sucks cock" trolls are there? Let's see. The number of "Zeus sucks cock" trolls versus "Twofo is dying" trolls on slashdot is roughly in the ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 "Zeus sucks cock" trolls. "Fuck twofo" posts on slashdot are about half the volume of "Zeus sucks cock" posts. Therefore there are about 700 trolls specialising in "Fuck twofo". A recent article put "destroy twofo" at about 80% of the twofo trolling community. Therefore there are about (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 "destroy twofo" trolls. This is consistent with the number of "destroy twofo" slashdot posts.

Due to the troubles at Twofo, abysmal sharing, ITS, lack of IP addresses and so on, "destroy twofo" trolls stopped posting altogether and were taken over by "Zeus sucks cock" trolls who specialise in another kind of slashdot posting. Now "Zeus sucks cock" trolls are also dead, their corpses turned over to yet another charnel horse.

All major surveys show that Twofo trolls have steadily declined in slashdot posting frequency. Twofo trollers are very sick and their long term survival prospects are very dim. If Twofo trollers are to survive at all it will be among hardcore slashdot posters, hellbent on Twofo's destruction. Twofo trolls continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save Twofo trolls from their fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Twofo trolls are dead.

Fact: Twofo trolls are dying

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."