The difference between competence and confidence:

[differenceblog]

What do men exaggerate and women downplay? Their computer skills.

Eszter Hargittai and Steven Shafer put 51 women and 49 men through internet-use skill test, and found that the women consistently rated their skill lower than comparably skilled men. The skills test gave participants a number of subjects to research, and allowed them to search

Comments

[goteam]

Just wanted to applaud the title of this post. Competence is a rare and beautiful thing.

[differenceblog]

Thanks again! This was one of my favorites, even though it was posted before I really figured out how I wanted Difference Blog to go.