Men vs. Women Interuptions

Men vs. WomenInterruptionsJanyce Osborne Zoe Anthony RahylIntroductionResearch Question:In casual coed conversations do women interrupt more often than men? What are the purposes and effects of these interruptions?

HypothesisWe predict that women will interrupt more often than men during coed conversations.

Background InformationJames C. Orcutt and Dianne L. Mennella found through an experiment that, men initiated the vast majority of interruptions in dyadic conversations between men and women recorded in natural settings (96%) and between previously unacquainted pairs in a laboratory setting (75%)(Orcutt and Mennella, 60). They studied a man and a women and how many times one would interrupt the other. Based off the research they found it seems that the man interrupted more than the women in different situations. We will use this source to demonstrate how men interrupt more than women. We have decided on changing our hypothesis to men interrupting more than women because most of our sources point to men interrupting more. This source helps prove our new hypothesis and hope to record the different types of conversation. In this short three-page description of Gender-Related Patterns in the Classroom, the author Deborah Tannen, he talks about how there is a distinct difference of overlapping and interruptions when referring to conversations with multiple speakers. He explains this with an example of how a second speaker may overlap the first speaker to add enthusiasm or suspense and so on. He also talked about how in it is proven that men interrupt women more often in co-ed conversation but when it is all men or all women, women tend to interrupt more often. He also talks about other studies of how men and women use very different word choice when teaching. He said women are more assertive than male teachers and give more direct orders while male teachers kind of float around some of their topics.

MethodsData CollectionWe recorded conversationTally the amount of boy vs. girls who interruptedWe choose these methods because we could go back and see if we missed any and wrote down what they said.We asked someone why thy had interrupted.Include pictures or audio clips of the data.

Results Logical ways we categorize our data.Bar graphs Problems and IssuesWhat we encountered Data:We could of miscount the number of times someone interrupted.We had technical issues on our dataAnalysisIf we did miscount our analysis would not be correct.Evaluate Success of MethodologyDo you think that you current methods are a good choice for our topicWhy or why notWhat kind of refinements would have helpedPredictions for a Full-Scale StudyOne major thing we would change that can work on that scalePredict the resultsImplications, Discussion, and ConclusionWhat did the data show us.Whether the hypothesis refuted or supported the dataBibliographyOrcutt, J.D., & Mennella, D.L. (1995). Gender and Perceptions of Interruption as Intrusive Talk An Experimental Analysis and Reply to Criticism. Symbolic Interaction, 18, 59-72Tannen, D., Johnson, D., (1996). Gender in Research on Language: Researching Gender-Related Patterns in Classroom Discourse. TESLOW Quarterly, 30.