Sadly, the amount of media attention paid the recent study nowhere equals that paid to the widely reported study from Stanford University and the Free University of Berlin this past February. Furthermore, the New York Times was the only media source I could identify that compared and contrasted the two studies. I couldn't help but silently chew on the fact that the professional psychological community also discounted the methodology of the earlier research, while the recent study used accepted standards. Gender Gap Other demographic information revealed by the Pew study includes the fact that the gender gap is closing among Web surfers. This raises the total number of Americans who daily use the Internet to 55 million, although men go on-line more frequently.
Women also are more likely to go on-line to search for health information or to find jobs.
Men were more likely to search for news, sports and financial information, as well as to trade stocks on-line. 60 percent of women and 51 percent of men say e-mail has improved their connections to family members. Use of e-mail is changing how some families interact, increasing communication in some relationships, and perhaps being used as a substitute for conversation in others. 84 million Americans have used e-mail. I'm waiting for a study to show that interpersonal communication increases between family members due to Internet usage.