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Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 7:57 am
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Would that be...tunnels smell? Make sure you are fit enough to hold your breath for 10 seconds without fainting? Never drive while holding your breath? If you can't take the smell of exhaust, get off the road before you hurt someone?Yarjka wrote:There's a lesson to be learned here...
It's a superstition thing--holding your breath while driving past graveyards, through tunnels, across bridges, that kind of thing.vorpal blade wrote:Would that be...tunnels smell? Make sure you are fit enough to hold your breath for 10 seconds without fainting? Never drive while holding your breath? If you can't take the smell of exhaust, get off the road before you hurt someone?Yarjka wrote:There's a lesson to be learned here...
Those are all pretty good lessons.vorpal blade wrote:Would that be...tunnels smell? Make sure you are fit enough to hold your breath for 10 seconds without fainting? Never drive while holding your breath? If you can't take the smell of exhaust, get off the road before you hurt someone?Yarjka wrote:There's a lesson to be learned here...
Never heard of that superstition. Which reminds me of the thing about lifting your feet off the floor of the car when you drive over a cattle guard. Ever hear of that one? Maybe she just made that up because she wanted a kiss.Tally M. wrote:It's a superstition thing--holding your breath while driving past graveyards, through tunnels, across bridges, that kind of thing.vorpal blade wrote:Would that be...tunnels smell? Make sure you are fit enough to hold your breath for 10 seconds without fainting? Never drive while holding your breath? If you can't take the smell of exhaust, get off the road before you hurt someone?Yarjka wrote:There's a lesson to be learned here...
Ugh!Digit wrote:Saddle seats on an airplane? No thanks.
And I'm sure there will be a $20 fold-down fee too.Emiliana wrote:Ugh!Digit wrote:Saddle seats on an airplane? No thanks.
Do men who rudely interrupt you intimidate you, Portia? In your personal experience do you find it more likely that men will rudely interrupt then women? And do individuals who rudely interrupt single out a paticular sex to victimize?Portia wrote:Women rudely interrupted in meetings by men and contribute less (although when they do, they bring different considerations).
Did you even read the article? The research was done by a BYU professor and his Princeton colleague and it's on BYU's website. I would find peer-reviewed research more convincing than my anecdotal evidence, one way or another, frankly.vorpal blade wrote:Do men who rudely interrupt you intimidate you, Portia? In your personal experience do you find it more likely that men will rudely interrupt then women? And do individuals who rudely interrupt single out a paticular sex to victimize?Portia wrote:Women rudely interrupted in meetings by men and contribute less (although when they do, they bring different considerations).
I read the article 6 times before I responded, and checked out links in the article about 2 times each. Next time, take me seriously.Portia wrote:Did you even read the article? The research was done by a BYU professor and his Princeton colleague and it's on BYU's website. I would find peer-reviewed research more convincing than my anecdotal evidence, one way or another, frankly.vorpal blade wrote:Do men who rudely interrupt you intimidate you, Portia? In your personal experience do you find it more likely that men will rudely interrupt then women? And do individuals who rudely interrupt single out a paticular sex to victimize?Portia wrote:Women rudely interrupted in meetings by men and contribute less (although when they do, they bring different considerations).
(And no, it's usually the other way around, if anything. I grew up in a household with very snappy turn-taking, regardless of gender.)
Sometimes I feel you don't take my credibility seriously.
That was very interesting, Mic0. Much could be said about the research biases, methodology, and structuring your "take" on the data to reinforce your initial bias. There were lots of good comments made in the comment sections as well. Many of the same criticisms could be made of the data Portia referenced, and a very different conclusion could be reached with the same data.mic0 wrote:Vorpal, you might find this post on Language Log interesting about how and when and whom men and women interrupt. It is of course not completely scientific and a smallish sample size, but it was written by a linguist with a background in these kinds of methods. I found it interesting, anyway. And here are a couple of follow-up posts by different authors examining what the first writer's results may mean and how they could be accurate and inaccurate -- 1 and 2. (These are also anecdotal, so still not as good as the original thing Portia posted, but not *as* anecdotal, haha. )
But when you question what women say every time, even when they're citing other people, and demand they explain further ,I have a hard time believing that. Actions speak louder than words, and it doesn't seem you want to discuss (at least not here).vorpal blade wrote: Just in case it needs to be said I believe that much good comes from letting everyone participate in a discussion without feeling pressure to keep quiet. Women often have a different viewpoint from men, which is very valuable to have presented in a discussion, and I would want them to feel free to express themselves.