Re: stereotypes, ageism, and the scientific method

[P3D Dr. George A. Themelis <fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dick, I agree with your thoughts of the nature of email and photo-3d. 
Photo-3d, like most discussion lists, has the character of informal
conversation which is, IMO, a good supplement of more formal publications,
e.g. Stereo World.

>I doubt that most VM collectors are female, if that's what was said, but 
>having observed the perusers of stereocards at several NSA and ISU trade 
>shows here and abroad, I'm quite sure that Dr. T is right that most card 
>collectors are male.

Note, I was talking about ratios, not absolute percentages:  Ratio of
women collecting VM vs. stereo views, vs. same ratio for men.

Dan mentioned some women that work in stereo views.  I wonder how many of
those are also collectors of antique stereo views.  To expand this, I
wonder what percentage of stereo photographers are also stereo collectors
and if this percentage is different for men vs. women.  Not that it matter,
but if there are differences I would like to "theorize" on what the basis
for these differences could be.  What attracts people to collect things,
especially old photographs?

George Themelis


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