How different are men and women, really? New research underscores that almost everyone’s personality blends “more often seen in men” and “more-often-seen in women” characteristics.
How different are men and women really? About 30 years ago, if dating guides are any indication, some people assumed vast differences in personality, with Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus relationship advice. Today, by contrast, certain communities are pushing back against the idea of binary gender, which presents men and women as separate categories.
At ClearerThinking.org, a project that investigates the psychology of happiness and decision-making, we wanted to contribute to this discussion and help the public learn more about sex, gender and personality. We ran a series of 15 studies and conducted analyses on more than 15,000 people with the goal of testing the most comprehensive set of personality traits to date.
The largest difference we detected was the degree to which cisgender people thought about sex, assessed by asking people to rate how much they agreed with the statement “I often have sexual thoughts when I meet an attractive looking person” and disagreed with the statement “I do not frequently think about sex.” We found that gender could explain about 18 percent of the variation in the extent to which people are sex-focused. Men had a higher average score on this trait than women.
To test how accurately gender can be predicted from personality, we developed a simple machine-learning algorithm . We trained our algorithm using results from past study participants, then presented the algorithm with the personality traits of new participants to see how well it could predict their gender. Using just the most predictive trait—being sex-focused—the algorithm could predict a person’s gender correctly 69 percent of the time. This result may be impressive to some.
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