Psychology Experiments

[Thermal]

I am the wizard, and you can be my lab rats!

Experiment 1: put these 10 words in order of gender association, putting the words you associate with males at the top and the ones you associate with females at the bottom, with the middle suiting both sexes.

Sly
Repulsive
Arrogant
Complaining
wise
eccentric
prudish
funny
naive
concentrated

GO!


Experiment Count

Experiment 1: Gender associated word listing
Experiment 2: Elephant leg illusion
Experiment 3: Characteristic Associations
Experiment 4: The Muller Llyer Line illusion

[LittleGrizzly]

Arrogant
Sly
Repulsive
funny
wise
concentrated
eccentric
prudish
naive
Complaining

hmm... yeah that sounds about right to me... concentrated is attention span i assume.. ?

[TevashSzat]

Arrogant
Repulsive
Sly
Eccentric
Wise
Funny
concentrated
Naive
Prudish
Complaining

Meh, kinda hard. I don't really feel particularly strong about any of them

[LittleGrizzly]

Arrogance and complaining were the only ones that wouldn't move if i made the list several hundred times... the rest i am probably less certain about thier places

[Yoyoma1910]

Male

middle
sly, repulsive, arrogant, complaining, wise, eccentric, prudish, funny, naive, concentrated
middle

Female



I associate such adjectives with people, not gender. Mr. Freud.

[Thermal]

concentrated is attention span i assume.. ?

pretty much and often how serious someone is too, i'll do a new test each day there are some fascinating figures and facts, it's amazing how we react to certain things which individually make us look like prejudice fools

[Rhyfelwyr]

naive
wise
funny
complaining
eccentric
arrogant
concentrated
repulsive
sly
prudish

Hmm, mine is completely different from everyone else's

[LittleGrizzly]

facts, it's amazing how we react to certain things which individually make us look like prejudice fools

Well im not even completely sure about the complaining one (as in im only aboutn 85% sure), but arrogance is far more a male vice than a female vice, maybe you could explain it to us fools....

[atheotes]

wise
Arrogant
eccentric
funny
concentrated
Repulsive
Sly
prudish
naive
Complaining

tbh... i found most of them falling in the middle except for complaining... i dint even bother putting the middle words in any particular order

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Repulsive
funny
naive
wise
Arrogant
Sly
eccentric
concentrated
Complaining
prudish

[Thermal]

maybe you could explain it to us fools....

hmmmm? i was generalizing, even with my self.....

[Csargo]

What sort of test is this? All people of either gender can be any of those, so I'd put them all in the middle if that is an option. I wouldn't feel comfortable trying to seperate them into gender groups.

[Ferret]

arrogant
sly
repulsive
wise
funny
concentrated
prudish
eccentric
complaining
naive

[Ramses II CP]

Arrogant
Sly
Repulsive
Eccentric
Naive
Concentrated (What the heck kind of trait is this? Does it mean the capacity to concentrate or does it mean not having any juice? )
Complaining
Prudish
Wise
Funny



(Yes, these traits apply better to individuals than to sexes, but (for example) when I think of arrogant not a single female comes to mind. Similarly I can't think of any prudish males in my circle. Plus this sort of psychobabble is much more fun when you just play along.)

[Martok]

arrogant
sly
repulsive

funny
eccentric
wise
concentrated

naive
complaining
prudish


EDIT: Heh. I didn't even notice til just now that I placed all the positive adjectives in the gender-neutral category. Interesting.

[naut]

Concentrated
Arrogant
Wise

Funny
Repulsive
Eccentric
Prudish

Naive
Sly
Complaining

What the hell is with y'all saying guys are more sly? No way. A guy being sly is the equivalent of a girl being normal.

[spmetla]

I've noticed most here attribute 'complaining' to females.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I've noticed most here attribute 'complaining' to females.

Culturally men who complain tend to be worse off than women who complain maybe?

I don't think I could reasonably put them in any sort of order. I tried to when you first opened the thread, but I ended up not feeling strongly about at least eight of them.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Most people seem to think naive would be girlish. I strongly doubt that... men are far mor naive imo.

[Legosoldier]

Males:

Both Genders:
arrogant
sly
repulsive
wise
funny
prudish
eccentric
naive

Females:
complaining
concentrated

[naut]

I've noticed most here attribute 'complaining' to females.

Go camping with a woman and you'll see why.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Arrogant
eccentric
Repulsive
Funny
Wise
Concentrated
Sly
Naive
prudish
Complaining

[penguinking]

Arrogant
Repulsive
Eccentric
Sly
Funny
Wise
Concentrated
Naive
Prudish
Complaining

[Thermal]

i liked martoks discovery and little grizzys, the ones to point out were pointed out by most people :) this survey was done worldwide with 300 words, me only picking 10 because i couldnt see anyone doing that many!

the results were that the more negative ones were for the sexes
i.e: male arrogant, women: complaining, and the majority of people thought the postive belongs to both, overall though the women were seen more positively though not necessarily a good thing, though these are mostly stereotypes from our own experiences, no one person, as someone mentioned can be branded under one category, a man can act like a woman, this is his gender, though biologically they are of the male sex

there is no wrong or right answer to this question, though the majority of you said what was said when this experiment was first carried out.... in the 1930's so the main thing to take away from this is attitudes to certain behaviors probably haven't changed much since the 80 years or so of this experiments first use!

[Thermal]

Experiment 2:




how many legs does phanpy have?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

He has 4 legs...the real question is how many feet does he have?


edit: I propose we carry out a version of the stanford prison experiment and confine 7 orgah's to a single thread while giving another 3 orgah's unlimited mod powers in that thread.

[Thermal]

He has 4 legs...the real question is how many feet does he have?

fine, how many legs and how many feet does phanpy have?

[Yoyoma1910]

What cruel genetic modifications created such a beast!



Answer:
One.

[Thermal]

What cruel genetic modifications created such a beast!

phanpy's special and he wants you to count his legs for him! (sorry if i'm treating you similarly to a 4 year old )

[Yoyoma1910]

Sorry, edited in my answer.




Only one leg is complete and attached, as opposed to implied.

Edit:

Everything else would then belong to itself.