Recently, a study was conducted in Professor English-Bircher’s Writing Composition class relating to a personality test. For each student, the test concluded scores for five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Interesting results came out of myself and the class. What was found was that this information relates to Deborah Tannen’s writing on why men and women cannot communicate easily with each other. Our results agree that the reason both sexes have a hard time speaking to the other due to men being more orderly and able to speak their mind while women are more understanding and anxious, placing both of these genders into a group based on traits. In the study performed in class,
