Thursday, March 7, 2013

Gender Association

While I was taking the tests, I was really finding taking the tests somewhat challenging. The reason why is because I was not used to pressing the "E" key for a female question or the other way around. I actually found it easier when I had to press the "E" key whenever I was asked a male question and the other reason is that I find it easier to react with my left hand while I am using a computer.
I felt extremely confident when I started the tests and I knew while I was taking the tests that I had nothing to fear since it was only for a homework assignment and I had never done it before anyways. According to my data, it suggests a strong association of males with careers and females with families compared to females with careers and males with families. According to the data for my science test, my data suggested a moderate association of female with science and male with liberal arts compared to male with science and female with liberal arts.
According to the other test takers data based on the gender test, it said that 32% of other test takers got moderate automatic association of male with career and female with family. According to the other test takers data based on the science test, it said that 28% of test takers got moderate automatic association of male with science and female with liberal arts. An example when I have witnessed gender-based inequality would have to be the gender who normally gets hired as a teacher the most which is the male.
If I was to recommend any future topic for a gender-based test, it would have to be, "who is better with children, males or females"?