Question

1. You are conducting research on sex differences in e-mails. Your hypothesis is that men use more declarative statements and women use more questions.

Answer each of the following questions.

• What might be the advantages of using the archival method?


• What might be the disadvantages of using the archival method?

Answer 1

I didn't know emails had sex characteristics. Oh, you mean the sender.

Archival method as in searching through old emails?

Well, whose files are you searching? Will that make a difference? That is going to take a long time, isn't it? Who is going to count something as a question. Often, in emails, people don't use punctuation, right.
Do men have more to declare? and Women have to ask what they meant?

Answer 2

I definitely agree with bobpursley about defining your method of sampling e-mails.

In the terminology of psychology, sex is biological, while gender implies both biology and cultural/environmental factors.

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In the future, you can find the information you desire more quickly, if you use appropriate key words to do your own search. Also see http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/.

Answer 3

This article might also be helpful:

http://www.members.cox.net/dagershaw/lol/CommunicationGenderBias.html