In general a doctor is more likely to be a male than a female by 2:1
And, a nurse is more likely to be a female than a male by 9.5:1
Thus a random pair up of a Jonathan and an Elizabeth walking to a hospital room, are more likely to be Doctor and Nurse than the reverse?
http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/physicians-by-gender/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D
http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/human-capital-and-risk/gender-ratio-of-nurses-across-50-states.html
That can’t be right. On TV nearly all Dr.’s are female and Black females at that.
The few male Dr.’s are also Black or some minority.
I remember a few years ago, one of my daughters, she was like 6 or maybe 7, heard someone described as a “Male Nurse.”
She was howling with laughter, and kept repeating, “A male nurse!” as if that whole idea was completely preposterous!
Which was itself hilarious, b/c we had certainly never said anything like that around her. Somehow she just got the vibe that men are doctors, and women are nurses. And a male nurse is some kind of freak show!
Heck, I would still prefer that nurses dress like nurses, so we can tell them apart from orderlies, physician’s assistants, etc.
I admit that I struggle with the concept of “male nurse.” It must because the noun is also a verb ... a very feminine verb.
Seems this Jack Cao has a mental firewall about facts.
If people have a subconscious anticipation of the male being more likely to be the doctor and the female the nurse, its because this fits the experience people have and forms an expectation. This is not any kind of fault of the person, its just the way that the irrational part of our mind works to form expectations for us. People do not go around all day reasoning out every expectation in our daily lives....we simply expect some things to be a certain way without thinking as we concentrate on the things that have our attention. When something is different than this expectations, then it grabs our attention and we attend to it.
To the extent people tell a researcher after thinking about it that either is equally likely to be a doctor or nurse it is because they are being trained to either be dishonest or use unsound reason or judgement for the sake of social pressure....this is the real "mental firewall" here.
-PJ
I think psychologists place far too much emphasis on cultural conditioning as a determinative factor in this sort of decision. If it’s a function of simple observation, it isn’t a stereotype. If I see ten male cops and one female, and someone asks me the same question, I’m going to guess that the unknown cop is a male, not because I’m making a sexist assumption that all cops have to be male but because most of them actually are.
It’s not a stereotype, idiot. A higher percentage of doctors are men, and a higher percentage of nurses are women. Undeniable fact.
Same with suicide bombers, rapists, and murderers. The mind is not prejudiced - it’s just acting on observed events.
I somehow suspect Gunilla Hutton cemented the association in my, ahem, youthful (at the time) mind.
My last visit to the hospital would have been.
Who is the doctor and who is the nurse?
Sanjay and Sheniqua
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.