LOL evolutionary psychology https://phys.org/news/2017-10-women-gossip-attention.html …
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when "women use gossip to compete for a man's attention" is your takeaway from a *survey* of 290 cis hetero Canadian college students


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literally correlating two survey responses from a highly-select pool of college kids to draw sweeping conclusions about gender differencespic.twitter.com/eMbyJS1mAo
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I mean, even if the study is a perfect reflection of reality anything more than "girls gossip more than guys" is an enormous reach
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i just don't understand how you can draw conclusions about biology and evolution from survey results. it's baffling.
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Having looked at the quoted researcher's previous publications, he seems to have an evolutionary agenda. Confirmation bias all the way
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I mean, he completely skipped the idea that ANY of these things could be socially determined. Which is monumentally idiotic
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I found a link to the study itself if you want to read something that will make your eyes bleed https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-017-0121-9 …
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