Posted on 09/15/2016 11:04:32 AM PDT by garyb
When people are given two names, Jonathan and Elizabeth, and asked who is a doctor and who is a nurse, the respondents typically say that each is equally likely to be in either profession. But experiments based on how quickly people link the names with the jobs reveal that people's brains run on stereotype: The individuals are much more likely to associate Jonathan, a man, with doctoring, and Elizabeth, a woman, with nursing.
This kind of implicit association, or subconscious pairing based on stereotype, is well-known in psychology.
But now, researchers find that even after people are directly told that Jonathan is a nurse and Elizabeth is a doctor, these implicit biases don't change. The stereotype acts like a "mental firewall" that seems to prevent people from updating their subconscious attitudes with the facts, said Jack Cao, a graduate student in psychology at Harvard University in Massachusetts.
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I know a MARSOC Marine who’s going to nursing school. Like I say, it’s MY struggle, not theirs.
I somehow suspect Gunilla Hutton cemented the association in my, ahem, youthful (at the time) mind.
Cheaper schooling and a high demand job, what is wrong with that?
Male nurses are in high demand.
I liked when they looked like sees candy ladies
Alan Alda wears Alan Alda jammies
Now they all seem to wear dumpy scrubs with cute pajama patterns. Not exactly confidence-inspiring.
My last visit to the hospital would have been.
Who is the doctor and who is the nurse?
Sanjay and Sheniqua
“It must because the noun is also a verb ... a very feminine verb.”
Yes, a male nurse cannot exactly fulfill all the actions of the verb “to nurse”, do to limitations of his biology.
That’s not a very hot pic by the way? We’re you playing it safe on that?
Exactly ... If she can’t cure what ails ya, you’re probably dead.
if you know me and my history here yes
feh, I figured that Alan would wear a nightie.
I had a similar experience with my daughter when she was about 5. I asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up and she answered, "a nurse". So I said, "A nurse. That's good. How about a doctor?". She replied, "Oh no, boys are doctors, girls are nurses". (She's not a nurse; she works in CAD).
I was going to post those numbers, but you beat me to it. Liberals are morons or worse. My guess is they know better but they lie because they are evil.
I spent some time around the military, too, to the tune of 20 years on acrive duty. What you say is true, but a whole lot of it is affirmative action. I saw many instances of that.
Affirmative Action with compliance to the UCMJ. Rules and regulations and conformity to service standards makes all the difference.
There a couple of things we were told in boot camp that have remained etched in my brain.
1. “Like it or not, you are now living in a military dictatorship”
2. “There are two types of food. Food that makes a turd and food that pushes a turd”
THANK YOU DRILL SARGENT!
Affirmative Action with compliance to the UCMJ. Rules and regulations and conformity to service standards makes all the difference.
There a couple of things we were told in boot camp that have remained etched in my brain.
1. “Like it or not, you are now living in a military dictatorship”
2. “There are two types of food. Food that makes a turd and food that pushes a turd.
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