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Posted by on January 24, 2012
For your Tuesday morning reading pleasure, two headdeskers, and a rational response.
The dead tree version of the Dom Post has an article about how men are naturally aggressive , and this has helped man [sic] to progress through history. You can read the on-line version at the Telegraph, where the subbing is marginally less tendentious: Male sex drive to blame for world’s conflicts.
It goes nicely with a piece from Psychology Today: Gender differences in personality are larger than previously thought.
There’s a response to the latter piece of “research” at Scientific American: Get over it: men and women are from the same planet.
A) a series of words that sound as if they mean something but in reality don’t
B) Define characteristics that can’t be measured so that the bigots can justify their bigotry while getting paid
C) See A)
It troubles me that this shite passes as research, for the simple reason that there’s a market for it. You have to wonder what is the opportunity cost when trained scientists beaver away to produce Stuff headlines.