We need a discussion about feminist "villanising" by use of stats manipulation and fraud

38 points12 commentssubmitted by mhandanna to r/Egalitarianism

OK no rage posts, here's a serious discussion about how to stop research fraud and stats manipulation in feminists academic output and also journalism. Obligatory, not all feminists etc etc... Certain feminists (and unfortunately the ones that are in power and publish) ability to twist any statistic and employ an oppressor-oppressed model has already long past ridiculous levels. Look at the end for some examples of if non feminists swapped genders to see how silly it is.

Look at this for example. This is nature the leading science journal on earth:

https://www.nature.com/news/men-cite-themselves-more-than-women-do-1.20176

Finding: Men as a class somewhat self cite more than women as a class. Or you could say women self cite less than men.

What a scientist should do: Evaluate it. Is it statistically significant, what's the distribution,, ahh so do men publish more, hence have more to cite? post analysis could look at how can women cite more?

FEMINISTS spin: Forget that, lets look at: Men cite more. Ermm patriarchy i.e. lets "villain" men.... women don't need to change.... no no no... men self cite because society allows them to do so (WHAT THE ACTUAL F**K?? ARE THESE FEMALE SCIENTISTS BABIES OR DAMSELS IN DISTRESS? WTAF??)... completely ignores men are more senior, have more lead research and pubilish more hence so can cite more....

forget giving women advice on careers and citing etc... no its patriarchy.

This is of course relevant as it fuels false feminists fake sexism narratives. E.g. (a paper they DE publshed)

https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/

and also currently huge storm about a paper showing male mentors produce better outcomes for female mentors... if the opposite was shown they would have no problem, bbt currently they are demanding it be memory hold, agin citing fake sexism claims due to citing etc.... so this false science does make a difference.