<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">As always, I wonder if this is true or just reinforcing a bad stereotype. For instance, just after a quick check, I found this:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.livescience.com/8698-study-reveals-women-apologize.html">https://www.livescience.com/8698-study-reveals-women-apologize.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>I recall, too, several studies showing men tend to dominate conversations and have no problem interrupting women. So I’m thinking this is just a bad stereotype reinforced by selective recall. (Or does anyone have anything other than anecdotes about this?)<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 10, 2020, at 3:06 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Just having a joke on women. But - I have been reading about decision making, attitude and behavior change, confirmation bias etc. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">It is hard to change a person's mind about anything. Ego defenses leap to defend the opinion. Bias in assessing data tries to support what one already believes, and many, many more things stand in the way of change and admitting being wrong.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">It's not hard - it's very hard. When was the last time you admitted being wrong and changing your mind about something important? Even trying to pull out memories of being wrong is something your mind fights.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>