[Sigia-l] Girls prefer pink

[jorge valescos]

On 8/22/07, Paola Kathuria <paola at limov.com> wrote:
> Ziya Oz wrote:
> > Apparently:
> >
> > "Girls really do prefer pink - or at least a redder shade of blue - and boys
> > prefer blue, according to research that shows that men and women see the
> > world differently.
> >
> > <http://tinyurl.com/2rzyu8>
>
> Bah.
>
> The methodolody used wasn't one to test whether colour
> preference is hard-wired, as suggested:
>
>   "208 young adult men and women were asked to select,
>    as rapidly as possible, their preferred colour from
>    pairs of coloured rectangles."
>
> If the subjects were more than a year old, they'd have
> already been socialised into 'accepted' gender roles.

Hello. I agree, the methodology is suspect for the given conclucion.
Another example of junk science being paraded to suit agendas of high
priced consultants?

JV