Why I always question statistics

Imnotmrabut · 2017-08-20T11:09:00+00:00

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Hawksource- · 2017-08-20T15:28:33+00:00

But at the same time, 3/4 homeless people are men.

compuwiza1 · 2017-08-20T14:30:44+00:00

So, 3 of 4 don't matter, and if they are going to die, let them do it? I object to that!

shellbroth · 2017-08-20T15:08:59+00:00

The other three are genderless. Easy.

Imnotmrabut · 2017-08-20T14:40:22+00:00

"The Women-Are-Wonderful Effect"

"The idea that people are prejudiced against women has been a standard assumption both of social psychologists who have studied gender-related attitudes and stereotypes and of feminists committed to social change. Because the term prejudice generally refers to negative attitudes toward members of a social group, the issue we examine in this chapter is people’s attitudes toward women in the sense of their general evaluation of this social group.... Recent (1994) research thus suggests that both women and men evaluate women more positively than men - a finding that we dub the women-are-wonderful effect. These findings are provocative in the light of claims concerning negative attitudes and stereotypes about women.

Eagly, Alice H., and Antonio Mladinic. "Are people prejudiced against women? Some answers from research on attitudes, gender stereotypes, and judgments of competence." European review of social psychology 5.1 (1994): 1-35. doi:10.1080/14792779543000002

snupher · 2017-08-20T16:35:30+00:00

Hmm... I wonder what happened because the stat backed by actual info has always been only 10-15% are women, depending on where they are talking about. That would be 1 in 10 or 1 in 6 and 1/2...

nforne · 2017-08-20T09:42:07+00:00

Do you have a link to the full article?

AmuseDeath · 2017-08-20T22:06:10+00:00

Cmon guys, we should be outraged that ANY women are homeless. I mean those other 75%? Nah, fuck em. As long as no homeless people are women, things are okay.

dreamstretch · 2017-08-20T21:41:48+00:00

They didn't actually work with homeless people. Some people on the internet make things up.

Voidslan · 2017-08-21T02:35:30+00:00

People, the real jewel here is that 3/4 of homeless people are not specifically female. Sure the focus is on women but now we get to criticize it for excluding the male and trans community.

dontpet · 2017-08-20T18:23:37+00:00

There is a similar approach used for male victims of dv. http://www.oneinthree.com.au/

I've never thought of that crew as denying the existence and importance of female victims. Could be those creating the image have the same idea.

Or could be they believe they will get more donations or other support including women.

tortillastomper · 2017-08-20T09:59:44+00:00

More importantly, how many are children? I don't really care if an adult is homeless, it happens and they can get help. It's kids who are stuck. Kids shouldn't be homeless.

dewse · 2017-08-20T17:32:51+00:00

Putting aside the obvious fact that they are focusing only on one gender when the rest seems to be the most in trouble, it makes me wonder how the hell do homeless women deal with periods. That's kind of a messed up. Anyone here worked at a shelter or whatever that knows this?

DarkDoesThings · 2017-08-20T18:40:34+00:00

Facepalm.

RubixCubeDonut · 2017-08-20T21:23:46+00:00

It'd be a pertinent point if they were trying to remind people of an ignored minority but any stat I've seen suggests that women are disproportionately more likely to receive assistance while homeless.

Just more disgusting misandry.

UDT22 · 2017-08-21T07:54:56+00:00

So it doesn't matter that 3 of 4 are men?

Benjaminook · 2017-08-21T18:27:30+00:00

And yet the 43% of domestic violence victims that are men don't matter...

Title	Why I always question statistics
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Date	August 20, 2017 8:15 AM UTC (8 years ago)
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