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From: astieber@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: references to computer mouse usage studies
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Date: 31 Dec 88 00:03:43 GMT
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I thought that this might apply to the current discussion.


>From: andrea@hp-sdd.HP.COM (Andrea K. Frankel)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Wanted: references to computer mouse usage studies
Date: 13 Dec 88 21:12:11 GMT
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In article <148@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> STAT02@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu writes:
>It has been my experience that females
>more frequently take a longer time to become comfortable using a mouse.
>(whether this has a cultural or biological basis, I don't know, and
>frankly my dear, I don't give a damn :-). I was also struck, in a set of
>letters published in one of those glossy trade journals on the sins /
>virtues of mouse usage, that a larger percentage of the cons were from
>females.

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There was a blurb in the newspaper recently, and also in Science News I
believe, reporting that the spatial-vs-verbal skill tradeoff varied in
women according to their hormonal levels in a regular monthly cycle.  It
would be interesting to try "mouse acceptance tests" on non-mouse-using
women and see if there was any correlation with where they were in their
menstrual cycle!


Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
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