[Sigia-l] Girls prefer pink

[Ziya Oz]

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. 

A love of salmon, fuschia and coral does seem to be hard-wired into females,
rather than picked up from their mothers and peers."

<http://tinyurl.com/2rzyu8>

>From the paper:

"The long history of color preference studies has been described as
³bewildering, confused and contradictory² [1]. Although recent studies [1],
[2] and [3] tend to agree on a universal preference for Œblue¹, the variety
and lack of control in measurement methods have made it difficult to extract
a systematic, quantitative description of preference. Furthermore, despite
abundant evidence for sex differences in other visual domains, and
specifically in other tasks of color perception [4] and [5], there is no
conclusive evidence for the existence of sex differences in color
preference. This fact is perhaps surprising, given the prevalence and
longevity of the notion that little girls differ from boys in preferring
Œpink¹ [6]. Here we report a robust, cross-cultural sex difference in color
preference, revealed by a rapid paired-comparison task. Individual color
preference patterns are summarized by weights on the two fundamental neural
dimensions that underlie color coding in the human visual system. We find a
consistent sex difference in these weights, which, we suggest, may be linked
to the evolution of sex-specific behavioral uses of trichromacy."

<http://tinyurl.com/2qejaf>

This is gender preference is often raised here as an example (and my Inbox
is full of closet pink lovers too :-). So does this make it official?

Make of it what you will.

-- 
Ziya

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