how old are you where sexual rumors and affairs make you giggle like a little punk? what does her sex life have to do with anything, especially from 20 years ago, and was consensual? why does she have to wear the scarlet a but assholes like trump and gingrich and gaetz are not judged by any sexual connotations?
Very true. Even when the researcher has no bias and is trying to produce the most objective study, social science research has a problem with quantifying and operationalizing subjective terms. I have seen "racism" measured by whether a person favors affirmative action. I have seen a study of whether playing violent video games produces violent children measured by whether that child answers "yes" to the question, "if I had a balloon, would you pop it?"
Although peer review is often used to eliminate poor methodology, some lower level journals will publish anything to appeal to lower level scholars who need publication credits for promotion and tenure.
Here are some great articles about a scholar who made up a fake study and got it published.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...l-hoax/572212/
https://www.theatlantic.com/national...ournal/357006/
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An interesting article that bears little relationship to the title of this thread.
Two similarly titled papers with markedly disparate conclusionsconservatives are generally fearful, low in self-esteem, and rationalize away social inequality,What, then, can be drawn from these conflicting analyses?
First, be wary of the conclusion that conservatives are happier than liberals and that they find greater meaning in life.
In “Are Conservatives Really Happier Than Liberals?,” Tom Jacobs points out that researchers report that conservatives are more likely to proclaim they are happy. But liberals are more likely to provide clues indicating they’re experiencing actual joy, including the words they choose to use, and the genuineness of their smiles.So, it seems that conservatives are more likely to claim they are happy but liberals are more likely to act happy. But then you also have to put this in context of when the studies were done. Happiness on the political spectrum strongly correlates to whether your guy is in charge or not. Based on the JPP conservatives, happiness for conservatives has dropped considerably since November of last year.Based on that research, Wojcik, Ditto and four colleagues argue in “Conservatives Report, but Liberals Display, Greater Happiness” that “research suggesting that political conservatives are happier than political liberals is fully mediated by conservatives’ self-enhancing style of self-report.”
Using what they call “behavioral measures,” the authors found thatrelative to conservatives, liberals more frequently used positive emotional language in their speech and smiled more intensely and genuinely in photographs. Our results were consistent across large samples of online survey takers, U.S. politicians, Twitter users, and Linked-In users.
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