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From: west@utcsrgv.UUCP (Thomas L. West)
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Subject: Re: Gender-specific responses to s/he
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 11:57:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 10 11:57:09 1985
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In article <1067@hcrvx1.UUCP> tracy@hcrvx1.UUCP (Tracy Tims) writes:
>Somehow I suspect that if the test was run using "she" as well we'd find
>that women could relate even better to that.   I prefer the form that gives
>everyone an even chance.  Writing the "he/she" form is not descrimination
>against men, it is simply non-preferential treatment.
>
>                              Tracy Tims    {linus,allegra,decvax}!watmath!...

  Actually, I think that using "she" would probably *increase* the recall
rate for everybody.  Using she (or she or he instead of he or she) is so
unusual that I find I tend to remember the occurance and the information
related in the article.	 Maybe it's just personal, but these sort of
'suprises' tend to help recollection.  (Apparently there's one prof
at U of T (in psych, of course) who uses this to some effect to get
important points over.)

Tom West
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