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Show Women Worse Gossips Than Men Test Shows The article dealt with men vs. women. It said good and bad things about both groups. The professor showed it briefly to the first students in the two lineups line-ups Harvard men, Radcliffe and Simmons girls, says Pathfinder. . Each waited 10 minutes then rewrote re-wrote it from memory and showed it to the next in line, who repeated re-peated the process. By the time it had gone through six male and six female memory-transcriptions it had lent scientific backing to an old male belief: women are worse gossips than men. The results: The men retained more facts, better balanced. What the women remembered best were things unfavorable to their own sex. They even added a few degra-tory degra-tory overtones. It tended to show, said Harvard's Har-vard's Dr. Thelma G. Alper, one of the testers, "women accepted the social sterotype that they are not as good as men and went out of their way to prove it." |