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What Do True Gender Ratios and Stereotype Norms Really Tell Us?
We present a Focused Review on work that was conducted to compare perceived distributions of men and women in occupations and other social roles with actual real world distributions. In previous work, we showed that means for the two sources were similar and the correlation between them was high. Ho...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4935690/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27458423 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01036 |
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author | Gygax, Pascal M. Garnham, Alan Doehren, Sam |
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description | We present a Focused Review on work that was conducted to compare perceived distributions of men and women in occupations and other social roles with actual real world distributions. In previous work, we showed that means for the two sources were similar and the correlation between them was high. However, in the present paper, although we argue that comparing subjective gender stereotype norms and real world data about gender ratios is an interesting endeavor, we also discuss the limits to and difficulties in trying to determine the causal relationship between them. Most crucially, we argue that our data does not allow us to deduce with certainty that subjective gender norms are based directly on gender ratios. |
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spelling | pubmed-49356902016-07-25 What Do True Gender Ratios and Stereotype Norms Really Tell Us? Gygax, Pascal M. Garnham, Alan Doehren, Sam Front Psychol Psychology We present a Focused Review on work that was conducted to compare perceived distributions of men and women in occupations and other social roles with actual real world distributions. In previous work, we showed that means for the two sources were similar and the correlation between them was high. However, in the present paper, although we argue that comparing subjective gender stereotype norms and real world data about gender ratios is an interesting endeavor, we also discuss the limits to and difficulties in trying to determine the causal relationship between them. Most crucially, we argue that our data does not allow us to deduce with certainty that subjective gender norms are based directly on gender ratios. Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4935690/ /pubmed/27458423 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01036 Text en Copyright © 2016 Gygax, Garnham and Doehren. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Gygax, Pascal M. Garnham, Alan Doehren, Sam What Do True Gender Ratios and Stereotype Norms Really Tell Us? |
title | What Do True Gender Ratios and Stereotype Norms Really Tell Us? |
title_full | What Do True Gender Ratios and Stereotype Norms Really Tell Us? |
title_fullStr | What Do True Gender Ratios and Stereotype Norms Really Tell Us? |
title_full_unstemmed | What Do True Gender Ratios and Stereotype Norms Really Tell Us? |
title_short | What Do True Gender Ratios and Stereotype Norms Really Tell Us? |
title_sort | what do true gender ratios and stereotype norms really tell us? |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4935690/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27458423 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01036 |
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