15 July 2013
Quote of the Day: Geena Davis
From the NPR discussion "Casting Call: Hollywood Needs More Women":
"My theory is that since all anybody has seen, when they are growing up, is this big imbalance - that the movies that they've watched are about, let's say, 5 to 1, as far as female presence is concerned - that's what starts to look normal. And let's think about - in different segments of society, 17 percent of cardiac surgeons are women; 17 percent of tenured professors are women. It just goes on and on. And isn't that strange that that's also the percentage of women in crowd scenes in movies? What if we're actually training people to see that ratio as normal so that when you're an adult, you don't notice? We just heard a fascinating and disturbing study, where they looked at the ratio of men and women in groups. And they found that if there's 17 percent women, the men in the group think it's 50-50. And if there's 33 percent women, the men perceive that as there being more women in the room than men."
"My theory is that since all anybody has seen, when they are growing up, is this big imbalance - that the movies that they've watched are about, let's say, 5 to 1, as far as female presence is concerned - that's what starts to look normal. And let's think about - in different segments of society, 17 percent of cardiac surgeons are women; 17 percent of tenured professors are women. It just goes on and on. And isn't that strange that that's also the percentage of women in crowd scenes in movies? What if we're actually training people to see that ratio as normal so that when you're an adult, you don't notice? We just heard a fascinating and disturbing study, where they looked at the ratio of men and women in groups. And they found that if there's 17 percent women, the men in the group think it's 50-50. And if there's 33 percent women, the men perceive that as there being more women in the room than men."
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# posted by mamurd @ 9:06 PM 
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Or maybe, in a group setting, most men just don't pay attention to most other men. All they look at are the women, and so their count is off.
By that logic, just one woman in a group would make it seem like there were more women than men in the group.
If there's just one woman in a group of ten, the men might say it's a 1:3 ratio... They know there are more men, but they don't bother counting.
But that's actually pretty close to being true, if my math holds up...
It doesn't explain when there's a group of 9, and 3 are women, and men thinking there are more women than men in the group.
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It doesn't explain when there's a group of 9, and 3 are women, and men thinking there are more women than men in the group.
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