Interesting that this survey only asked about white women.
I would make the distinction between the description and the questions should be greater, as they seemed to blend in together. Otherwise, it was simple and easy!
I am in a romantic relationship with my husband! Not sure if that is what you meant, but that is how it is :)
Very straightforward. Thank you for the opportunity to participate!
I just wanted to mention that I read all the questions, but my answer is very streamlined with the most neutral response possible. I can't make a judgement on a person's characteristics with such minimalist, basic information.
It was difficult to answer this question without any other information about the subject aside from gender and age. My mind was all over the place thinking about who she could be, which is why I chose the neutral answer for all of the traits she could or could not be. I wish I could have given more straightforward answers, and I might have if there were just one more definable trait.
I think the "are you involved in a romantic relationship" question is a bit strange. I don't know what that question meant. Does being married count as a "romantic relationship"?
I took the study seriously, but I cannot generate many opinions just from knowing a person's age, sex, and ethnicity. Therefore, most of my responses were at the mid-point of the scale.
I based my response on assertiveness by assuming that a person in a committed relationship would be less demanding.
Consider adding impressions on men of different ethnicity.
Im a 28 year old female so I'm constantly battling stereotypes. I really enjoyed your study and appreciate the research you're doing! ?
I enjoyed this study, it was fun and interesting.
It was very hard to randomly assign traits based on the extremely limited information given. I can't judge or form an impression of people that way.
Thank you for this very positive and interesting study.
Interesting study. Thank you for a fun survey. Good luck with your research.
I felt like there was not enough information given. Most of the questions asked were impossible to even consider with such little information given. Maybe that's the point, I don't know.
Not enough information about the person. But I guess that's a necessity for stereotypes. Sad that we jump to conclusions so fast.
For the majority of the questions, I did not have enough information to have an opinion, hence the large number of "4" responses.
I wasn't really able to gauge much given the initial description of a 28-year-old white woman with children. My answers, 3 on a 7 point scale, mostly indicate "Hell, I don't know. Could be any of these". I was aiming for something statistically as neutral as I can manage on a 7-point scale. / / My answers on the next portion, indicating a slightly higher preference for a stable relationship and slightly higher concerns for childcare, represent a vague general impression I have of the women I've met in a similar demographic displaying heightened concern about the impending wall of middle age and the increasing difficulties in pinning down a partner, as well as daily concern regarding the provisioning and herding of her children.
Super simple, the questions were easy to understand. Honestly, I would have answered a lot more for a survey for that price point.
In general, I try to avoid assumptions based on so little info, so I chose to go middle of the road for most of my answers, since I assume, a person could be sexually active and still have many other good/bad attributes regardless of how many people they sleep with.
I do not like to judge people. Who am I to know if this person is/was anything. I am a single woman with 2 kids. Never married. I have a bachelors degree.
I don't think I will be able to provide adequate results because I don't really follow into stereotyping people. My apologies.
It's difficult not to stereotype a man who spends time with his children as being like the TV movie dads who are very focused on their kids. / / In reality, I believe these dad's may be as likely tp look for affairs or one nighters as any other man. / Most people seem to keep their sexuality in a separate compartment than their love for their children.
Why did you specify race in the question? You didn't even reference it when talking about stereotypes.
You should give more information besides a 28 year old white woman, maybe a 28 year old white women attending a University.
I mostly chose around average values except for those that could be determined based on the only fact we know about the person: their long-term relationship.
I wanted to answer those questions for different types of people as well
This seems pointless. How am I supposed to make any judgments about a person by only knowing their race, age, and sex?
Based on the very generic info provided, I gave the most neutral answers about most things, because I have no idea how that person matches those things or not. / The only ones I answered differently, were based on it being specified a long term relationship, so was able to give answers based on that info.
I was not given sufficient information about the individual to be able to make the kind of judgments asked for about him. He could spend time with his children and still be a terrible person.
Not enough information about the person to make these judgments.
First off, there are a LOT more sexual orientations than the choices you gave & I'd've happily answered even a 'none of the above' instead of 'decline to answer'. / / Second off the information about the woman wasn't enough to answer most of those questions about her. The few that I did answer anything other than 'neither' were, basically, complete guesses. / / I know it's about first impressions but. I can't even make those without _some_ information to base them on.
Only bit of feedback I have is that it was nice to get a bit of an explanation of the focus of the study after completion, rather enjoyed seeing some of the reasoning behind it.
I think that's a very interesting study! I would think men as they age care less and less about the previous promiscuity of their partners, especially when they get into relationships later on in life.
I tried not to make a judgement. He may be honest about short term relationships but otherwise responsible. It depends.
I just wanted to say this was an interesting thought exercise. For as many times as I thought about my own preconceptions, I could also think of why they were wrong. I eventually voted mostly in the middle of the road, because in the end, we know very little about the person in question.
not enough info given to make a determination about the person
I might have been slightly/unintentionally biased in my answers as it asked about a 28 year old white woman, and I am a 28 year old white woman.
I try to make it a rule to infer only what is reasonable from information I am given. If I have no opinion, I select four.
Thanks, I only got the female part and not the male.
I didn't understand why a mother of 2 children I presumed was married would be looking for a relationship short term or otherwise outside of marriage or her partner. That seemed very odd.
I would give more context about the 28-year-old white man because you can't say anything about him without getting to know him. Since everything is just a blank slate when you meet him. Except for outside factors such as clothing, environment, and attitude.
/ Just curious about the color. I would assume that women of that age are the same no matter what color they are.
I'm not sure "planful" is a real word. But interesting study, I just assumed that the women in question would be concerned for her children even though it was not explicitly stated if she had any.
Seriously? You expect me to make a judgement on a person with no information? I evaluate people individually and not as a part of a group or demographic.
Not enough information was made of this man to make sufficient requested assertions.
You didn't have an option for "Other" or a fill in the blank for the Sexuality question.
No problems, everything seemed clear to me. Good study.
generalizing without knowing details about this person so tend to think average or middle of the road opinions, they could go either way
I hope you get all the information you need. -Steve
I didn't base a lot of what I said on his age, at least consciously; I based it on his strong desire for short-term relationships.
I was confused by the adjectives in the instrument because I didn't know whether they applied to the person's sexual encounters or his personality in general