Trivia and Gender
We are just days removed from the revelation of Deep Throat, and in the spirit of revealing information, below is a possible explanation to the wonder of why trivia and trivia-pursuit related games seem to be a domain of the Gentlemen, with not much participation from the Ladies.
Courtesy National Post via fact.on.ca and Trivia Hall of Fame comes this piece of interesting trivia news.
The University of Ulster at Coleraine, located in the northern part of Ireland, conducted a test with 1500 university students taking a 182-question general knowledge test (designed to measure the knowledge in the 19 major domains of what is normally considered as general knowledge, including areas such History of Science, Politics, Sport, History, Classical Music, Popular Music, Jazz and Blues, Art, Literature, General Science, Geography, Cookery, Medicine, Games, Discovery and Exploration, Biology, Film, Fashion and Finance), balanced to eliminate gender bias and also gender differences in memory or in IQ.
Surprisingly, the men beat the women in just about every category, even in fashion. The main explanation left appears to be that men see general knowledge tests as a competition with other males for status and power.This is utterly fascinating considering women tend to do better than men in schools and seem to be outperforming men at jobs in the real world as well.
Now for some really curious facts. Regis Philbin, host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, has lamented about his contestants being male. Almost half of Trivia Hall of Fame's online quiz game are women, and other research suggest that women are very much drawn to online gaming, provided that they are competing only with themselves.
It may be that most trivia environments are too cut-throat for women, who prefer not to be surrounded by men competing to see who has the biggest ... brains.
Whodathunkit?
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4 comments:
Hi,
Iam subha and the regular one to say hello to Chakkra.Comin to crux,Okay I can get no inkling or clues on wat you are tryin to express.....
The point is you had given a gist of some nice situations(real life) and also recommended a website but wats your stand in this issue you had posted.Please do publish your take as Iam a kind of fascinated to know wats your notion?Gud day
Regards
S
The University of Ulster at Coleraine, located in the northern part of Ireland
What kind of an university is this..and what kind of a study is this.
I don't believe in all these studies, though I am not sure of the stats to compare.
The links are good. Thank you
Hello Subha, thanks for dropping by.
This post is a trivial attempt to publicize a trivial study on trivia, by a trivia-buff (me). It is as simple as that.
My take? Maybe women generally do not seem to be participating in quiz-shows etc at the rate that men do, but someone forgot to tell that to the women that I know.
Narayanan,
Believing/disbelieving a study is an individual privilege. Maybe you would have been better off questioning the need for such a study.
Wonder what the researchers were out to prove..that unlike women, men are trivia-nuts who ignore the real world?
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