Thanks, Dan!
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What do you mean by sociology of abortion?
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How abortion fits into women's lives (in the U.S.); how it's changed; prevalence; social expectations; relationship to men's perceptions. Not a cliff's notes, but I'd appreciate a good map.
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Replying to @generativist @rebeccakreitzer and
I was using abortion as a context where women's beliefs inherently integrate more direct experience than men's but I was wayyyyy off in prevalence (underestimate). That seems like a glaring gap in my knowledge, and I want to be careful in my argument.
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I don’t know about any gender gap in role of experiences. There is a ton of work on public opinion surrounding abortion (inc my work on adolescent socialization). Guttmacher has best data on abortion prevalence (inc rates, demographics, availability).
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Thanks! (The Guttmacher data was what surprised me. Looks like I still have some reading to do.)
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can you talk a bit about what surprised you in the Guttmacher data? often, folks find it surprising that many women who have abortions, already have children - this, in my opinion, is because they think of the choice as whether or not to *become* a mother, rather than 1/
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Replying to @Smilla1972 @generativist and
as a choice that is *part of* mothering.
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My dissertation is on belief systems. One of my primary motivations is highlighting that, without decomposing the information sources that go into belief integration (direct v social experience), there's constant (exploitable) misinformation).
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Replying to @generativist @Smilla1972 and
I thought abortion would be a good discussion (not part of my simulation proper) example, since there is a clear difference in the information sources. Women inherently have more direct, visceral experience.
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But, my prior expectation for the incidence rate was closer to 1/10 -- that's a very bad prior! Oddly, I think it supports my argument -- I'm a well educated man who got it very wrong. But, now I realize I know too little to even make the argument (yet.)
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were you expecting an incidence rate of 1 in 10 women -- or 1 in 10 unplanned/unexpected pregnancies?
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1/10 women
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