The two larger classes taught in lecture halls both contained fifty or more students; Classroom 3 was taught by a male professor, and Classroom 4 was taught by a female professor. No gender biases could be detected in any of the observations. Each of the professors seemed to take an active role in encouraging both male and female students to participate, and did not appear to favor one sex over the other. For each classroom, the researcher took a seat in the class, and used a watch to record the talkativeness of students, which for the purposes of this study, may be defined as the number of times a person speaks and the length of his or her responses. It was also important for the researcher to record the gender of each student, as he or she spoke. Observations for each class were repeated twice more, for a total of three times for the four classes. Data from each setting were then analyzed in order to determine which gender talks the longest and most often.
Results.
Results for Classroom 1 are as follows: four male and two female responses were recorded on the first observation. The second observation resulted in two male responses and one female response, and two male and zero female responses were recorded on the third observation. Classroom 2 results are as follows: five male and three female responses recorded on the first observation, two male and four female responses for the second observation, and one male and two female responses recorded for the third observation. Classroom 3 results are as follows: three male and two female responses for the first observation, one male response and zero female responses for the second .
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observation, and two male responses and one female response for the third observation. Classroom 4 results are as follows: zero male responses and one female response for the first observation, one male and one female response for the second observation, and one male and two female responses for the third observation.
