A new study backs up what men have said all along: Women are difficult to read. And the women agree.
Researchers at Indiana University showed video clips from 24 different speed dates and asked male and female participants two simple questions: "Do you think the man was interested in this woman?" and "Do you think the woman was interested in this man?" Their answers were then compared with the responses of the speed daters themselves.
The results, published in the January issue of the journal Psychological Science, show that both men and women are able to gauge a man's interest in a woman, but are equally baffled when it comes to figuring out if a woman is interested in a man.
In fact, a flip of a coin would be almost as accurate in predicting a woman's romantic interest on a date.
Source: Everyone agrees, women are hard to read.
I remember watching a discussion in a news video in which women and men were speculating on why men keep after a woman who isn't interested. This study would seem to suggest why: men can't tell. But women can't either, it seems, so men are hardly to blame.
Posted by Jeff at February 17, 2009 01:28 AM. Original Copyright, May 2004. All Rights Reserved.
