NO FUCKING WAY!

This cannot possibly be true: 

The results show that about 18 percent of women share similar personalities with men, and 18 percent of men share similar personalities with women. But the majority of women have personality traits that are quite distinct from those of men, and vice versa, the researchers say.

Men tend to be more dominant (forceful and aggressive) and emotionally stable, while women tend to be more sensitive, warm (attentive to others) and apprehensive, the study found.

I don't know what clown college these so-called "scientists" got their degrees from but they should be refunded their tuition.


These asshats go on to reveal some really starling, and quite frankly dangerous ideas about humanity.

The new findings may explain why some careers are dominated by men (such as engineering) and others by women (such as psychological sciences), Irwing said.

"People self-select in terms of their personality… and what they think is going to be suitable in terms of the fit," for their career, Irwing said.

This is madness! Thankfully cooler, eggier, heads were consulted before this travesty of inanity could be foisted off on the unsuspecting public as "science."

But the findings counter the prevailing view among psychologists that, on the whole, men and women are more similar than they are different, in a number of ways, including personality traits.

Janet Shibley Hyde, a professor of psychology and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin who published a paper in 2005 that was influential in contributing to this hypothesis, said the new study does not overturn this view.

For starters, the men and women in the study assessed their own personality traits. People may be inclined to rate themselves in a way that conforms with gender stereotypes, Hyde said. "It's not very manly to say that you're sensitive," she said.

Whew! I was worried that I'd have to change my view of women and men being exactly the same as each other.  Simple hormones couldn't possibly have any effect on personality, or career path, or sexual proclivities, or gender stereotypes, or protein synthesis, or calcium resorption, or dietary preference, or brain structure, or libido, or intelligence, or agression, or mood regulation, or digestion, or muscle distribution, or invention, or creativity, or baby-making, or baby cuddling, or the immune system, or helping fight disease, or fat distribution, or what one looks for in a life-partner (mate is gender specific, you fascist!).

This is the only thing on Earth affected by hormones: television.