Here is a little follow-up thread on the "gender bias in pain assessment" study to respond to some questions that have come up from some tweeters. One question is what exactly is wrong with headlines saying girls' pain was "taken less seriously" in our study, given the findings.
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have been 'opposite' along a different dimension: girl pain could have been rated higher than boy pain (by either men or women). True enough. Suppose we'd found that participants rated a girl as experiencing more pain than a boy given an identical display of pain. One possibility
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is that headlines would have read, "Girls' pain is taken more seriously than boys' pain, contra sexism." Or, the finding could still have been interpreted as evidence of sexism: "Girls are seen as oversensitive to pain & not as tough as boys." So my point was just that, in our
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study, we did not measure "sexism" nor design our experiment to be able to find evidence in favor of any particular conceptualization or operationalization of sexism. Had we intended to see whether sexist prejudice against girls would lead to different pain ratings for boys
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versus girls given an identical display of pain, we (1) would need to have conducted a very different of experiment w a different design & different measures, including measures of, for example, endorsement of sexist attitudes (on some clear conception/theory of sexism), and
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(2) we would have to have set up our hypotheses in such a way that, if the data turned out such-and-so, this could count *against* our hypothesis. By contrast, if, no matter which way the data came out, we could have found a way to interpret this as being consistent with
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our particular theory/conceptualization/operationalization of sexism, then our hypothesis would not be meaningfully falsifiable and that would be a troubling feature. And based on the way the media coverage was playing out, it seemed plausible to me that, at least a popular 'lay'
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theory of sexism, might indeed have elements that are unfalsifiable in the present context. E.g., the coverage from Jezebel (https://jezebel.com/girls-pain-taken-less-seriously-than-boys-study-confir-1832233139 …) seemed to just assume that the findings "confirmed" deeply entrenched sexism. But a single finding can't confirm any such thing.pic.twitter.com/7PEJ8n4EJW
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For more on falsifiability in the context of findings in psychology, see my paper with David Trafimow:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00621/full …
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