Men vs. Women: How Different Are We? (Hint: 'Different Species')

From the financialbrand.com (find it here)

A new study published by the Public Library of Science (and written about here) tells us what we knew: men and women are different. How different? Pretty much so, say as in "different species," according to the one of the researchers for the report.

The study measured a list of personality traits and came up with this: "men are far more dominant, reserved, utilitarian, vigilant, rule-conscious, and emotionally stable, while women are far more deferential, warm, trusting, sensitive, and emotionally 'reactive.'" There were some similarities, though not many: "The two sexes were roughly the same when it came to perfectionism, liveliness, and abstract versus practical thinking."

Paul Irwin, a researcher from the University of Turin who was in on this project, summed it up nicely: "If you translate it into the simplest terms, only 18 percent of men and women match in terms of personality profiles, and that's staggeringly different from the consensus view." Irwin used the term "different species" to describe the gap.

(The graphic is from thefinancialbrand.com and illustrates Men vs. Women: Two Different Perspectives on Money.)