Involvement in potential future events estimated by males and females

Abstract.— Males and females from a Swedish local organization for international peace and understanding estimated their intensity of involvement in two potential future events assumed to occur in different years between 1974 and 2048. They also estimated the importance, probability, influenceability, and their knowledge of 16 future events, and the number of years before the events would occur. The results showed that males were less involved than females in an event which would increase the life span in developing countries, if this event were to occur during the next 20 years, while males and females were about equally involved in an economic depression. Compared with males, females considered that most future events were more important and they gave higher estimates for the probability of undesirable events and lower for desirable events.