study showing a 30 year effort to distort domestic violence rates to emphasize women-as-victims model (pdf)

kloo2yoo · 2011-04-30T06:14:47+00:00

Why the fuck this been downvoted?

Feminists, if you don't want your world view shattered go back to /r/feminism!

2011-04-30T13:16:19+00:00

This is one of the most compelling accounts of how academic feminists pervert truth, facts, and reason in pursuit of their ideology. Academic feminism is nothing more than superstition masquerading as third-rate pedagogy.

pakmanishere · 2011-04-30T14:32:48+00:00

Murray Straus is a distinguished international researcher in domestic violence with over 40 years of experience. Unlike feminists, when the evidence didn't fit the theory, he revised the theory (gender symmetry). He has received much criticism from feminists, particularly for his development of the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS) and modified CTS.

The CTS is both the most widely used measure of family violence and also the most widely criticized. Extensive critical examination is appropriate for any widely used instrument because, if the instrument is wrong, then a great deal of research will also be wrong. In the case of the CTS, however, the most frequent criticisms reflect ideological differences rather than empirical evidence. Specifically, many feminist scholars reject the CTS because studies using this instrument find that about the same percentage of women as men assault their partners. This contradicts the feminist theory that partner violence is almost exclusively committed by men as a means to dominate women, and is therefore taken as prima facie evidence that the CTS is not valid. Ironically, the fact that the CTS has provided some of the best evidence confirming the link between male dominance and partner violence and other key aspects of feminist theory of partner violence (Coleman and Straus 1990; Straus 1994) has not shaken the belief that the CTS is invalid. Another irony is that despite these denuncifications, many feminist researchers use the CTS. However, having used the CTS, they reaffirm their feminist credentials by routinely inserting a paragraph repeating some of the erroneous criticisms. These criticisms are then cited in other articles as though they were empirical evidence showing the invalidity of the CTS, whereas there is only endless repetition of the same invalidated opinions.

The real irony is that even using feminist inspired typology, gender symmetry is revealed.

pakmanishere · 2011-04-30T14:39:17+00:00

Feminist researchers like Kimmel, Johnson, Jaffe, Bala, Flood, et al are lightweights compared to the academic experience and intellectual integrity of Murray Straus

fogu · 2011-04-30T17:36:10+00:00

The discussion about this data has been going on for some time now.

Other researchers have reviewed the theories and applied them to the data, controlling for a variety of factors. You can read such a review here:

Violent Acts and Injurious Consequences: An Examination of Competing Hypotheses About Intimate Partner Violence Using Agency-Based Data, Tara Warner.

I made it publicly available. Its findings summarized here:

Three research questions were presented concerning gender differences in victim identity, victim-offender relationships, and victim injury with hypotheses derived from the feminist, family violence, and general violence perspectives. Victim-based analyses were consistent primarily with expectations of the feminist perspective, although aspects of the general violence perspective were supported as well: Women were more likely than men to experience violence from an intimate; they were more likely to experience violence from an intimate partner than from any other perpetrator; and when victimized by an intimate, women were usually more likely to be injured. These results highlight the uniqueness of violence between intimates relative to other types of violence

Straus' findings are both right and wrong in some ways, but they're not the end of the discussion.

sky33dive · 2011-04-30T18:55:27+00:00

This is huge. This should be at the top of this subreddit.

BloodyUserOfNames · 2022-02-11T05:38:25+00:00

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Title	study showing a 30 year effort to distort domestic violence rates to emphasize women-as-victims model (pdf)
Author	kloo2yoo
Upvotes	37
Comments	11
Date	April 30, 2011 4:46 AM UTC (15 years ago)
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