ABSTRACT
Danny reported that the stereotype of all-male interaction was borne out by the data he recorded. He gave his paper the title ‘Wine, women, and sports’. Yet although I could agree that the data did contain the stereotypical features he reported, the more I looked at it, the more I saw other things in it too. Danny’s analysis was not inaccurate, his conclusions were not unwarranted, but his description of the data was (in both senses) partial: it was shaped by expectations that caused some things to leap out of the record as ‘significant’, while other things went unremarked.
