“As a conversation evolved, cultural and gender stereotypes were progressively projected onto that scientific information, to the extent that people were describing the research as the discovery of stuff that wasn’t even mentioned in the original scientific article,” she says. People latched on to the idea in the press release, but not in the paper, that women are better at multitasking. Before long, they were using the study to argue that men are more logical while women are more emotional. “That dichotomy wasn’t mentioned either in the press release or the original article, but it was kind
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