You rock. Your entirely justified rage is entirely welcome here, and rage that comes with detailed critique of research papers is making me go all *eyes turning into hearts*
It seems like that incredibly flawed experiment has convinced him sex differences are in part biological in origin (I mean, way to ridiculously over-generalize your data, I've rarely seen anything that egregious in an abstract). And believing that as axiomatic, he goes on and designs loads of other experiments which assume that any male / female differences he observes must be innate. I suspect that assumption leads him to forget to control for lots of really important factors. What a mess.
Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.
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Date: 2011-02-03 09:44 am (UTC)It seems like that incredibly flawed experiment has convinced him (I mean, way to ridiculously over-generalize your data, I've rarely seen anything that egregious in an abstract). And believing that as axiomatic, he goes on and designs loads of other experiments which assume that any male / female differences he observes must be innate. I suspect that assumption leads him to forget to control for lots of really important factors. What a mess.