Who is more curious, women or men?

[BikeWriter]

Inquiring minds want to know! :shrug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Well........you're a man, and you started this poll.......

So based on a sample of one......men are more curious!

But really, I don't know!

:shrug:

[BikeWriter]

3. Yes'm, I'm curious to know about this. I can turn off curiousity...

...if it's about something that's none of my bidness, though. :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Ah, that's interesting!

I can't turn off my curiosity......

But I can ignore it, and keep it from getting me into trouble! ;)

[BikeWriter]

13. Lol! I have to just ignore things. I've practiced that a lot.

[Bum Whisperer]

2. I just bought the x-mas gifts...

...and the wife is more curious than I would ever be.

[BikeWriter]

4. I used to have to hide presents from women.

[Broken_Hero]

6. In my experience, women are more curious...nt

[BikeWriter]

9. I think so, too, and the early results lean that direction.

[Quantess]

7. Is this a sex thread?

I'm curious. ;-)

[BikeWriter]

10. ROFLMFBO!

:rofl:

[reyd reid reed]

8. Oh, this might be good.

:popcorn:

[BikeWriter]

11. I thought it worth a shot. :-)

[some guy]

12. so, just out of curiosity...

how'd you vote? :P

Hi Leysa Leisa Leesa :hi:

[reyd reid reed]

14. ...

Along with learning not to look at things labled "not for the squeamish," I've also learned when to keep my mouth shut and just watch and listen.

And eat popcorn.

Mmmmmmm...

[some guy]

15. ooh...

I'm so bad at this being a man thing...

I'm the only man so far who thinks men are more curious.

:rofl:

:donut:

[reyd reid reed]

16. Why do you think that?

Is that based on personal experience?

:popcorn:

[some guy]

17. yep.

I'm always curious and wanting to learn stuff. In social situations I'm pretty content to mostly sit back and listen to what others have to say - I rarely say anything I didn't already know, but if I'm listening, I might learn something interesting.

From a wider perspective, I think most scientists and researchers are men; I'm sure part of that is gender stereotyping, but curiosity has to drive some of it.

[Quantess]

18. ....scientists and researchers are...

A lot of women are drawn to biology sciences, especially. I was and still am. However, I'm drawn to other interests as well, and being fragmented does not make for a successful scientist, usually.

And yes, women are given subtle messages that science is too hard. When I was growing up in the '70s, the messages were not as subtle.
I actually felt that I was weird and, I disliked women, because they were all stupid and didn't appreciate "smart" things. I was just a little girl.

[some guy]

20. cool

I've been thinking more since I last posted on this topic.

I think there may be a feminine dynamic that I missed. In social situations, which for me is most-often family gatherings, the women talk about all sorts of things; the men, not so much. I tend to spend more time among the women, because of my curiosity.

Anyway, the dynamic may be that women understand that other women are curious, so they talk about things as a way of sharing information and satisfying each others curiosity. They don't necessarily ask questions, but answer unasked questions.

From the start of this poll I was thinking in terms of curious=asks questions. Given that I'm a curious guy I tend to gravitate to where I will learn stuff, whether it be books or talkative groups of people.

So maybe women are more curious, but I gravitate to them because I'm curious too. Which ties to the I'm not very good at this being a man thing, I also posted.

It may also just be the entrenched patriarchy that leaves me the impression that most scientists and researchers are males. Men leading teams, so discoveries are announcements are credited to the male leder...and his team.

???

[Spider Jerusalem]

19. More curious about what, exactly?

On average, men seem to be more curious about things, and women seem to be more curious about people. One sees a somewhat similar divergence in academic disciplines, where men tend to be much more drawn to fields that involve the pursuit of knowlegde as an end in itself (theoretical physics and mathematics, for instance). Neither is more or less curious than the other, it's just somewhat differently directed; by and large, men seem to be somewhat more process-oriented and abstract, whereas women seem to be somewhat more results-oriented and practical.

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[BikeWriter]

24. I'm refering to overall or random things, Pard. We can make more polls...

[ncrainbowgrrl]

21. Curious-like looking something up on the internet... or "curious"... like... um...

Oh, right. can't go there. :blush:

Perhaps I don't want to know what this question was referring to re: curiosity!

[BikeWriter]

25. Hee hee hee! :-)

[Deja Q]

23. Well, I'm a man and I'm curious!

But nobody wants to satisfy my curiosity! :spray:

[BikeWriter]

26. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Yes, and you are an outlaw, too!

;-)

[trof]

27. Should that be who ARE more curious?

I mean since you used the plural?
;-)

[BikeWriter]

29. Hey, don't get me to lying, Pard...

[Blue-Jay]

28. Women are TOTALLY more curious.

They gotta know every-fucking-thing, yet they'll still think that men are weird when we win at Trivial Pursuit.

"How did you remember that?"

"I dunno. Maybe it was in a cartoon or something..."