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Scientific Bias in Favor of Studies Finding Gender Bias (But against whom?)

UnHope20

July 12, 2021

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Title	Scientific Bias in Favor of Studies Finding Gender Bias (But against whom?)
Author	UnHope20
Upvotes	8
Comments	4
Date	July 12, 2021 9:27 PM UTC (5 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MalePsychology
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MalePsychology/comments/oj0vlm/scientific_bias_in_favor_of_studies_finding/
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[–]UnHope20[S] 2 points3 points4 points 5 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

The author argues that there seems to be a bias in psychology towards the promotion of studies that find gender bias against women and a tendency to ignore studies that find that discrimination against men in science is prevalent. He uses quantitative methods to make his points.

But aside from the evidence of this bias, I wonder if there are other biases among researchers?? If that is the case, perhaps the reason for men's higher drop out rates from therapy isn't driven by an issue with the men but an issue of therapeutic methods which aren't able to support boys and men properly because they are based on findings that are not reflective of reality.

What do you all think? Have you seen studies on men with results that seemed questionable? Does the field of psychology have a gender problem?

[–]lightning_palm 2 points3 points4 points 5 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link

[–]Oncefa2 2 points3 points4 points 5 years ago* (1 child) | Copy Link

There was a post on r/malementalhealth the other day from a guy complaining about rent (or a mortgage) being too high, his job sucking, his job not paying enough, and then he said he struggles and struggles only to see a therapist for an hour every month to reassure him that everything will be ok. Like that's going to fix anything in his life.

These problems aren't unique to men of course but it's just something I've noticed recently between posts on that sub, and a couple papers I read.

Biases in therapy of course don't help. There was one guy who was a military veteran who told a story about going to the VA and seeing this feminist therapist who told him his issue was toxic masculinity and the patriarchy.

His first suicide attempt was after seeing that therapist and being told that his mental health problems were because he was a man.

[–]UnHope20[S] 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

His first suicide attempt was after seeing that therapist and being told that his mental health problems were because he was a man.

Can confirm this as well! There is a certain sub on Reddit (That shall remain unnamed) which claims to be dedicated to men's issues that pretty much did this with me. That sub wrecked my mental health. SPOILER: the sub is run by feminists.

I always tell every guy that I know who is considering therapy to make sure that the therapist is not following the APA recommendations for counseling boys and men.

It turns out that guilt and shame are pretty good predictors of self-harm. It's almost as though if a person feels bad about himself he is more likely to start thinking about checking out.

Those who understand depression and suicidal ideation know that in addition to hopelessness, shame and guilt are one of the strongest predictors of self-deletion.

Yet some of these therapists continue to harm their own clients with shaming language. For what? Are the handful of vulnerable men that they are able to convert to their ideology worth the cost of failing to serve people who really need it?

It's sad. I personally just take meds now. Since I live in the US, we have the APA and the APS calling the shots on how therapists counsel. The APS is pretty much all experimental stuff while the APA pretty much controls therapeutic psychology.