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A new analysis of personality tests taken by 10,000 men and women in America has found there is only a 10% overlap between the sexes where they share the same kind of personalities.
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Researchers, from Italy and the Manchester Business School, say the reason we think men and women are similar is that we have been using the wrong methods to assess them.
The personality test included 15 scales, collected under five headings:
Extraversion (warmth, liveliness, social boldness, privateness and self reliance.
Anxiety (emotional stability, vigilance, apprehension and tension.)
Tough-mindedness (warmth, sensitivity, abstractedness and openness to change).
Independence (dominance, social boldness, vigilance and openness to change).
Self Control (liveliness, rule-consciousness and perfectionism.)
When comparing men’s and women’s overall personality profiles using the new method very large differences between the sexes became apparent. (…)
“We believe we have made it clear that the true extent of sex differences in human personality has been consistently underestimated.”
Women scored higher than men on Sensitivity (sensitive, aesthetic, sentimental), Warmth (warm, outgoing and attentive to others) and Apprehension (apprehensive, self-doubting and worrying.)
Men outscored women on Dominance (dominant, forceful, aggressive) and Emotional Stability (emotionally stable, adaptive, mature).
