Men who work with women who appear clearly more effective th

Men who work with women who appear clearly more effective than themselves in finding a solution to a problem-solving task will have a higher regard for women than men who work in a group without women or the same task.

Questions:

2. Describe a problem-solving task that might be appropriate for this experiment. That is, developing a problem-solving task that would offer the male subjects the experience seeing women do better than themselves (the experimental group) or the experience of working on the problem-solving task without the more competent women or without any women (the control group). Again, remember that the women are confederates and are not a part of the experiemental or control group,

3.Describe the means by which you would test the attitudes of men regarding women\'s analytical abilities (in general, not necessarily as applied to the women in the experiment) prior to the experiment ( pretest of attitudes).

Solution

2) What we want to test here is men\'s regard for a certain group of women. Consider women who are really interested in science. The study would be ask them build a digital logic gate. They have to assemble all the parts by hand and test their circuit for AND, OR, NOR and XOR. However, none of them have any prior experience with this task. A demo is given on how to go about solving it.

3) Preprare a questionnaire or survey and circulate it to the experimental group. Make sure it has responses both for control group as well as general women population. Thne perfrom statistical analysis like PCA and test the hypothesis that there is a significant difference in regard for women who are more effective then themselves in problem solving as opposed to not having any women to solve the task.