Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Women more competitive than men

in some cultures:
Our experimental results reveal interesting differences in competitiveness: in the patriarchal society women are less competitive than men, a result consistent with student data drawn from Western cultures. Yet, this result reverses in the matrilineal society, where we find that women are more competitive than men. Perhaps surprisingly, Khasi women are even slightly more competitive than Maasai men, but this difference is not statistically significant at conventional levels under any of our formal statistical tests.
All I know is, in my American cultural experience, men are more competitive but women hold more grudges. And women say more words, especially once out of larger social arenas (where men are competing for best joke teller or story teller).

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