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As new technologies take on increasingly humanlike qualities, there’s been a push to make them genderless. Apple’s Siri digital assistant unveiled a gender-neutral option last year
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CEBRASPE (CESPE) · 2023
There have been concerns over gendering technology, since doing so reinforces societal stereotypes. That happens because the stereotypes commonly associated with men, such as competitiveness and dominance, are more valued than those associated with women. That is likely true, says Ashley Martin, a professor at Stanford University. “People are stereotyping their gendered objects in very traditional ways,” she says.
Removing gender from the picture altogether seems like a simple way to fix this. Yet, as Martin has found in her latest research, conducted with Malia Mason, of Columbia Universty, gender is one of the fundamental ways people form connections with objects, particularly those designed to evoke human characteristics.
Throughout the experiments, Martin and Mason found that gender increased users’ feelings of attachment to devices such as digital voice assistants –– and their interest in purchasing them. For example, participants said they would be less likely to buy a genderless voice assistant than versions with male or female voices.
Hope Reese. Is That Self-Driving Car a Boy or a Girl? In: Insights by Stanford Business. Internet: <www.gsb.stanford.edu> (adapted).
Judge the following item, related to the vocabulary and to the grammar in the precedent text.
In the second paragraph, the word “since” determines the use of the present perfect continuous in “There have been concerns”.
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Comentário: A afirmação está errada porque a palavra "since" no contexto apresentado não determina o uso do presente perfeito contínuo. "Since" é uma conjunção que pode introduzir uma explicação ou causa, mas a escolha do tempo verbal "have been" no presente perfeito simples é correta aqui, uma vez que indica que as preocupações surgiram em um momento anterior e continuam relevantes até o presente. O presente perfeito contínuo, que enfatiza a duração de uma ação, não se aplica neste caso. Portanto, a construção verbal é adequada como está, sem a necessidade de ser alterada para o presente perfeito contínuo.
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