[thelist] Do women view web pages differently from men?
Andrew Forsberg
andrew at thepander.co.nz
Fri Apr 6 09:57:41 CDT 2001
>A further question. If everyone on this list asks say 5 or 6 people,
>assuming this list has about 1000 users, does that constitute a
>proper survey, if the results are tabulated? (I actually am curious
>about this, not being snide.)
Perhaps this is a question to put against existing sociological and /
or linguistic research rather than web usability tests? If I'm write
the main point is: in a couple of very limited tests men tended to
read images, women to read text.
I don't know of any research into this area, but I would guess that a
much larger variation between text reading and image reading would
appear between cultures and social groups, than between the sexes.
For example, I would not be surprised if, say, Russian people -- who
(shoot me down if I'm way off base here) have a long cultural and
religious history of using icons -- to more often tend to read
images. While, perhaps, academics of the humanities would tend to
read text.
Not that I have any evidence whatsoever to back this up, I'd just
like to add cultural and social groups to the list Joe offered
earlier:
At 12:53 PM -0700 5/4/01, Joe Crawford wrote:
>So this is a function of literacy, too; I think. I think that
>arbitrarily choosing sex and then using men vs. women is not rational
>enough, I'd factor in -- age, years browsing web, level of education,
>maybe even how well they *see*.
- Andrew
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