Bias in Statistical Analysis?
Okay, so in the UK researchers asked 1743 people who had casual sex about their experiences. They conclude that “the permissive society sparked during the Sixties was supposed to free women to enjoy casual sex just like men, but it failed”.
How do they come to that conclusion? Because 80% of men and only 54% of women felt good about their one-night-stands afterwards. Okay, okay, we’ve obviously got a gender gap when it comes to enjoying casual sex, but how exactly do you get from that to saying that “women have negative feelings after a fling and remain unhappy with fleeting sexual encounters”?
It’s very evident that not all women enjoy casual sex. That’s fine. It’s also quite obvious that more men are into it than women. Also fine. But it seems like a bit of a stretch to say that because there has been a cultural movement towards permitting increasingly sexualized behavior by women over the past 40 years, and only half of women feel good about their own experiences with casual sex, then it must be due to women evolving to be devoted to one man.
Here’s another theory— that 40-year-old cultural shift they mention is not yet even close to being complete. In fact, strong conservative cultural elements remain to offset that change, to slow its effects. What’s more, that conservative element makes a practice of carefully manipulating information to reflect their cultural bias and then they publish it as science, thus ensuring the continued marginalization of those women who do not fit the cultural norm reflected in the data of the study at hand and further delay that movement’s cultural ascendence.
The researchers are disingenuous to suggest that the data supports an evolutionary model of human sexual behavior in relation to female promiscuity. Half of women enjoyed their experience. How exactly do you rectify that with the blanket statements they make about women’s desires?
Here’s what it all comes down to: a crap propaganda piece based on the crap results of a crap study.
Why in the hell do researchers insist on trying to fit everybody into these tiny little categories? I know, it’s necessary for science, but then they come out with suggestions as to how best your life when we are all unique individuals with our own preferences. This whole fascination with being ‘normal’ is a load of crap.
Every person is different. If you feel something, then that’s valid. Why? Because you feel it. Obviously that’s going to be informed by your cultural background, but this shallow manipulation just pisses me off. The culture is changing for a reason, and if it takes a few generations, that’s no indicator of failure.
No, it’s not surprising, but it is cheap shit.
Women have more regrets than men over one night stands - Telegraph
