The men were likely to consider a friendly gesture a sexual invitation and consider a sexual invitation a friendly gesture.
Of course, on second thought that also may show that women just don't know men. :)
There's an interesting question hidden here. Which person in those interactions had the "burden of knowing" the other? If it's the man's job to interpret the woman, we might say that he has failed at knowing her well enough to do so. If it's the woman's job to communicate her intent to the man, again, we would say she has failed at knowing...
Some people don't think this is difficult at all, and/or that psychological sex differences are trivial. What relative proportion of these would you say are unusual for their sex, unusually empathetic, and just delusional, respectively?Ah, I read something about that, before. It was an article on a small study that took note of a few people's reaction to women come-ons. The men were likely to consider a friendly gesture a sexual invitation and consider a sexual invitation a friendly gesture.
I'm confused :/
P(X,Y,Z) = P(X,(Y,Z)) = P(X) + P(Y,Z) - P(X;(Y,Z)) = P(X) + (P(Y) + P(Z) - P(Y;Z)) - P(X;(Y,Z)) = P(X) + (P(Y) + P(Z) - P(Y;Z)) - P((X;Y),(X;Z)) = P(X) + (P(Y) + P(Z) - P(Y;Z)) - (P(X;Y) + P(X;Z) - P(X;Y;Z)) = P(X) + P(Y) + P(Z) - P(X;Y) - P(Y;Z) - P(X;Z) + P(X;Y;Z)
By the inclusion-exclusion principle, no?
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/boarding