Do Fewer Women Have Midlife Crises?
–> Tweet I’m ‘re-pairing’ my midlife survey. No, it’s not broken. Let’s just say that the first time through taught me a great deal about what worked and what didn’t work; also, what was valuable information and what information I was missing. Silly me: just because I wanted to focus on guys going through midlife transitions, I offered the survey only to them. I hadn’t planned on offering the survey a second time, but now I realize two things: 1) I want to have many, many more responses and 2) I want responses from women, too. The (rather obvious) reason behind my choice derives from my sense that fewer women experience midlife crisis than their male counterparts. However, without some real data to back that up, it remains just an anecdotal and logical assumption. So I’m re-preparing (re-pairing?) my survey. Although I’ll be very careful not to allow my suspicions to influence the questions I ask and the way I ask the questions, I want to be very up-front with you about them. I will b
Tweet I’m ‘re-pairing’ my midlife survey. No, it’s not broken. Let’s just say that the first time through taught me a great deal about what worked and what didn’t work; also, what was valuable information and what information I was missing. Silly me: just because I wanted to focus on guys going through midlife transitions, I offered the survey only to them. I hadn’t planned on offering the survey a second time, but now I realize two things: 1) I want to have many, many more responses and 2) I want responses from women, too. The (rather obvious) reason behind my choice derives from my sense that fewer women experience midlife crisis than their male counterparts. However, without some real data to back that up, it remains just an anecdotal and logical assumption. So I’m re-preparing (re-pairing?) my survey. Although I’ll be very careful not to allow my suspicions to influence the questions I ask and the way I ask the questions, I want to be very up-front with you about them. I will be ve