Students lose marks for using 'he': Universities penalise undergrads for 'offensive' gender phrase

[Sgman91]

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;52056696]The inconsistent results you're referring to is the personal investment part, which was explained later in the paper.

Experiment 1 just had the job application stuff. Experiment 2 had job application, then work environment stuff. In both experiments, women felt excluded when people used exclusively "he". That's the important part and the whole point of why you should use gender neutral wording in your essay when it's appropriate. Someone said "know your audience", and if your audience is men and women, then design your essay around men and women.[/QUOTE]

You're totally misrepresenting the study and its results.

Experiment 1 tested:
- Ostracism
- Motivation
- Identification with the job
- Evaluation of writing style

In each category, the women in the group with the gender exclusive language had a worse measure than those in the gender inclusive/gender neutral category, while the men felt the same in both categories. This seemed to fully support the hypothesis that gendered language had a negative effect on the perception of women.

Experiment 2 was an attempted improvement on experiment 1, and included:
- Ostracism (by testing feelings of inclusion instead of exclusion)
- Motivation
- Identification with the job
- Affect in the work environment (not in first experiment)
- Job based competence (not in first experiment)
- Perceived support for professional development (not in first experiment)

Women reported a negative response to the first category (ostracism), but had no difference in any of the other categories. In effect, the women did not have less job motivation, did not identify less with the job, did not think it would affect work environment, did not think less of their competence, and did not see any less perceived support for professional development. This, in the words of the study's authors, went against their hypothesis. They concluded:

"this pattern of results is inconsistent with the hypothesized differential effect that
the three language types would have on women and men’s reactions to the types of
language used in the experiment." (pg. 25)

So, in effect, the results were entirely inconsistent and went against the hypothesis put forward by the author.

[QUOTE]As for the credibility of the participants.[/QUOTE]

I'm not questioning their credibility. I'm questioning whether they are an accurate representation of "men" and "women." They were not randomly selected and for all we know they're all enrolled in the same class and in the same college major.

[editline]4th April 2017[/editline]

As a side note, the use of the word "guys" (instead of "employees") is highly suspect. It is not a word ever used in professional job descriptions, even those that are gendered. It makes the description sound like it was written by a frat bro.

[butre]

[QUOTE=Killajax;52053843]I can't help but think Tumblr may have been involved with this.[/QUOTE]

translated: "THE SJWS DID THIS"