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Men & women have different personalities says new research....

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sportsfanatic · 05/01/2012 15:48

www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8992639/Men-and-women-have-distinct-personalities.html

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082398/Surprise-Men-women-really-ARE-different-Sexes-share-just-10-cent-personality-traits.html

Given the recent thread on physical differences what does everyone think about the latest 'research' today on personality differences?

I've posted the Daily Fail link only because it has a pretty blue and pink column comparison Grin Angry

As someone who has (and misses) traits from each column and confounds pretty much every female stereotype, I am now wondering "Am I a hermaphrodite"? Shock Wink

Seriously, looking around my friends I can't think of any who are not a mix of the two and have (and miss) traits from both lists.

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CogitoErgoSometimes · 05/01/2012 17:21

I know what you're saying.... another hermaphrodite here according to every psychometric test I've ever taken, shall we form a club? :) ... but, taking the 'special' people like ourselves out of the equation and looking at the chunky centre of the normal distribution curves, there probably are some very general averages that fall along gender lines if you have a test population big enough. Quite what practical use anyone puts those to, I'm not sure, but I expect marketing or design companies are big customers.

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