People are more sceptical of sex difference research when findings favour men - The British Psychological Society

shit-zen-giggles · 2022-10-05T06:18:58+00:00

Select findings I found most noteworthy:

Overall, participants reacted less positively to papers that found men were better at drawing than women than those that found the reverse. Participants found the male-favouring study less convincing, for instance, and felt the researchers were less trustworthy. This effect was stronger for female participants, but male participants showed it too; despite this, participants assumed that the average man and woman would respond more positively to findings that favoured their own gender over the other.

The second study replicated the first, but looked at a more significant and consequential trait than drawing: intelligence. Again, participants had a much less positive response to articles favouring men over women than those that favoured women over men – and, again, this effect was stronger in women, as well as in left-leaning participants.

People also saw the male-favouring research as more harmful – and the more harmful they felt it was, the lower quality they felt it was too, and the more inclined they were to protect women from the results. Unlike the first study, the gender of the lead researcher also made a difference: participants responded more negatively to research favouring men when the lead researcher was male rather than female. However, the gender of the lead author on research favouring women didn’t make a difference to participants’ judgements.

knightfluttershy · 2022-10-05T10:35:46+00:00

Even the fucking wording of the study itself favours women

“ they may also, as above, be using their knowledge of the history of badly done and sexist research to make a guess about the quality of the work.”

Literally the only time this article, which is about men being disadvantaged, uses the term “sexist” is when something doesn’t favour women. Beyond parody.

poisontongue · 2022-10-05T13:32:34+00:00

Of course, popularized misandry doesn't allow for men to exist outside of a useable state.

BloomingBrains · 2022-10-08T07:28:52+00:00

The irony is the that this study also favors men, so it would probably be ignored as well.

Vote Giant Asteroid 2024.

prettymuchredpilled · 2022-10-06T02:49:12+00:00

Aren't modern IQ tests purposefully modified to zero out sex differences as much as possible?

DistrictAccurate · 2022-10-24T17:10:29+00:00

More examples (first one being the one linked above):

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362069361_Reactions_to_research_on_sex_differences_Effect_of_sex_favoured_researcher_sex_and_importance_of_sex-difference_domain

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359612823_People_react_more_positively_to_female-_than_to_male-favoring_sex_differences_A_direct_replication_of_a_counterintuitive_finding

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343169602_Reactions_to_male-favouring_versus_female-favouring_sex_differences_A_pre-registered_experiment_and_Southeast_Asian_replication

Title	People are more sceptical of sex difference research when findings favour men - The British Psychological Society
Author	shit-zen-giggles
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Comments	12
Date	October 5, 2022 6:16 AM UTC (3 years ago)
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