• CaptObvious
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    2 months ago

    This ‘study’ doesn’t study aggression at all. It studies how different people perform in a game of mad libs

    Exactly. Word completion tasks are impossible to separate from confounding factors: the subject’s vocabulary, their family ideolect, their family culture, their local culture, their ability to spell (especially a problem in English), children’s tendency to try and please the adults around them…

    I’m sure there is a way to measure toxic masculinity.

    There are several. Many would even pass IRB review. This “study” has so many flaws that it should be a practice exercise for first-year research students, not something that The Conversation, of all publications, is flogging.