What are some biases that skew sexual studies?

XtoDoubt · 2021-10-09T13:19:39+00:00

People don't know what motivates them.

2021-10-09T18:33:58+00:00

People lie.

They lie about what they feel.

They lie about what they eat.

They lie about their money.

They lie about their habits.

And they will lie about what they want to stick in or be stuck in their genitals.

Often they don't even want to face it themselves as they know what they should be doing, or in sex believe they should like or not like.

Devourer_of_felines · 2021-10-09T13:52:10+00:00

There’s really no way around the unreliability of surveys - even if it’s anonymous people aren’t gonna be comfortable admitting they have a STD or that they’re a serial cheater or whatever.

Even more unreliable than the data is how people choose to interpret the cause and effect - e.g say there’s a study that shows married men make more money than unmarried men. One person can point to it and say “look at how beneficial marriage is for men!” While another can say “see? Women only marry money makers”

Hoopy223 · 2021-10-09T15:42:57+00:00

Self reported data.

Yeah I am sure all those married Men and Women are gonna be 100% honest about cheating and premarital sexcapades lol.

Anantha1996 · 2021-10-09T16:57:35+00:00

A lot of studies use college students alone as a representation of the entire population.

Goodlake · 2021-10-09T14:47:44+00:00

However, biologically speaking, the entire purpose of an organism is to reproduce successfully.

Biologically speaking, the entire purpose of an organism is to survive. You've demonstrated your own bias right here in this post!

Any study that relies on self reporting is going to inherently be subject to biases. Studies on sexual behavior are going to be subject to both overreporting and underreporting, for various reasons.

JALopo1 · 2021-10-10T03:11:43+00:00

The purpose of life is not survival and reproduction ffs. Nothing about the theory of evolution makes such a teleological claim. All that the theory of evolution says is that natural selection causes traits to evolve so that an organism becomes adapted to its environment that is all.

The noblest animals refuse to breed in captivity. Always remember this. People who think this way are less noble than these animals.

chilikettlechips · 2021-10-09T13:58:32+00:00

The things women want from men are easily quantifiable. They can easily filter by money, kid planning, height, and race. The "preferences" for these things are not taboo to ask for habe been reported by OLD for a while now and are under the app categories of deal breakers or filters.

What men want to filter by are hip waist ratio, and frequency of sex, and weight. But those dealbreakers or preferences will never be added and so OLD won't get to report on them.

upalse · 2021-10-09T14:14:09+00:00

Slightly on tangent: You can tell whether the study is any worth by whether they identify and do correct for general gender and demographic biases or not.

2021-10-11T02:38:42+00:00

The biases in any social science research are infinite and we may not even be capable of conceiving of most of them. Whenever there is a self-reporting element, people are often dishonest even when they aren’t conscious of their dishonesty. I ignore social science research as a rule of thumb.

Rosifer433d · 2021-10-09T14:51:41+00:00

Bruh. I was working and living in Greece and was borrowing a friend's house, living alone there, back in 2008, when the Greek economy went to shit.

I guarentee you lots and lots of women will fuck a guy if he has money, his own place to stay, and has no debt/loans/and has a job, and I'm talking about really hot women here. Obviously more often than not the guy is not physically attractive in the eyes of these women - but since when did that ever stop a billionaire from dating a woman way out of his league before?

Lots of women will fuck a guy for money. College students looking to pay off their college loans, women who want to live rent ''free'' in a guy's house, like this 20 year old woman I met when I was 22; she was living with a 45 year old man.

Ideally, what a woman wants is a guy she is physically attracted to, and it ain't hard to be that man, even if you aren't born to be 6 feet tall blablablabla or 6'6'' in the Netherlands, and for the guy to be rich - but to be rich?

Shit's hard as fuck.

I need to ask investment tips from the Royal Prince of Saudi Arabia. He's what, 33 years old, and has a fortune about 500 billion dollars or something? He must be really good at making money!

StarchRunner · 2021-10-09T14:09:42+00:00

Many a male researcher are sexless losers or nearly so. Writing up papers further encourages and plays up the institugional neuter tone.

Everytime they try to stick their STEM, it bolts.

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Title	What are some biases that skew sexual studies?
Author	majani
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Date	October 9, 2021 12:50 PM UTC (4 years ago)
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