Comments on: reading at risk, seriously

By: COB-30: maintaining position

COB-30: maintaining position — Mon, 23 May 2011 03:10:22 +0000

[...] of development than research-based accounts" (7)From being highly underdeveloped, appreciation for reading and writing fiction is now quite advanced. Fiction that is published and becomes popular, or even just attracts some [...]

By: females lead in social communication

females lead in social communication — Mon, 23 May 2011 03:06:09 +0000

[...] significant human sex differences exist in the use of telephones and other communication tools, in reading and writing, and in online gaming. Good analysis of human communication should not ignore sex [...]

By: women and men communicate differently

women and men communicate differently — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:52:57 +0000

[...] similar to the style of fiction, while men's is more similar to the style of non-fiction.[2] Women read more fiction than men do. A word-frequency factor analysis of a large corpus of blogs (150 million words) found that the [...]

By: purple motes » status of men in social communication

purple motes » status of men in social communication — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:05:40 +0000

[...] as the (male) Chairman of the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), released in 2004 an NEA study entitled Reading at Risk. This study, which surveyed a representative sample of the adult U.S. population, found that [...]

By: purple motes » both sexes talk longer with women

purple motes » both sexes talk longer with women — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:07:54 +0000

[...] non-friends with discretionary chat with friends.[3] Sex differences in online gaming and in novel-reading are related to more general sex differences in motivations and interests. These differences are [...]

By: purple motes » readers of early English novels

purple motes » readers of early English novels — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:50:17 +0000

[...] should expect the behavior of males and females to differ significantly. In the contemporary U.S., men are much less likely to read literary works than are women. Taking sex differences seriously is important for thinking about the development and marketing of [...]

By: TinkerX » The tragedy of booklessness

TinkerX » The tragedy of booklessness — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:02:09 +0000

[...] Another fine post (a bit aged; my bad) from Purple Motes, this time about the decline in literary reading in the U.S. The news comes from an NEA report, "Reading at Risk." [...]