odditycollector: I could go on talking to you for several minutes before yeilding to the desire to bash my head in with a large rock. (Young Justice)
odditycollector ([personal profile] odditycollector) wrote2011-05-21 07:20 pm
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why am I wasting neurons on these guys.

"The only other scientist to attempt to conduct a comprehensive, large-scale study of ordinary folks’ sexual desires was Alfred Kinsey." -- Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, 2011

So I have been reading some recent copy by the SurveyFail guys, and. I don't even really care that they are sexist assholes. There are SO MANY sexist assholes in this world, whatever, two more's not going cause us to reach any critical mass we haven't already.

But they are BAD SCIENTISTS. They are BAD SCIENTISTS making money off BAD SCIENCE and EVERYONE IS TAKING THEM SERIOUSLY.

And then this paragraph was entirely comprised of keyboard mashing, so instead here's a webcomic that sums up junk evopsych in my mind.


(Source.)

[Description: Two men in white labcoats stare thoughtfully at a blackboard reading:
-inferior brain power?
-pathetic physical strength?
-victim of own emotions?
CAPTION: Doctors Baring and Everett speculate as to why women find them sexist.]

Bonus Panel. You could also read it by clicking through to the webpage, but it's a bit hidden, so.


[Description: Doctor Baring approaches a female colleague, his hands raised in finger quotes. She seems extremely irritated. He's asking:
What do you "think?"]
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[personal profile] brownbetty 2011-05-22 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Are you sure they won't go away if we keep ignoring them? I'm willing to ignore them harder, if that might help.
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[personal profile] brownbetty 2011-05-22 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
IKR? I mean, otoh, I am all fall scientific rigour, and yet otoh, I am just as glad they're not out there earnestly explaining women's hard-wired need for AMTDI and mpreg.

(Granny porn? Really? That's a thing?)
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[personal profile] happydork 2011-05-22 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
*sigh* I agree with everything you say here.

[identity profile] marag.livejournal.com 2011-05-22 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh, is it publicly available BAD SCIENCE? Because I can always write it up for my blog for the Journal of Are You Fucking Kidding. They love that stuff!

[identity profile] odditycollector.livejournal.com 2011-05-22 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure you didn't miss SurveyFail and its absolute parody of the science the first time around the first time around, but here are their reader response answers on the Freakonomics blog (http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/05/17/the-neuroscience-behind-sexual-desire-authors-of-a-billion-wicked-thoughts-answer-your-questions/). It is full of bullshit and question-evading and offensiveness, although I'm actually kinda surprised they actually bothered answering the questions at all. They also got an article on the Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704463804576291181510459902.html) which would be hilariously stupid except people think this is science. Also I made the mistake of stumbling onto their blog, which has such amazing posts as "Why Feminism Is the Anti-Viagra (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/billion-wicked-thoughts/201104/why-feminism-is-the-anti-viagra)". It is all unexamined assumptions with sciencey words thrown in. I have not actually read the book and I do not plan to.

[identity profile] marag.livejournal.com 2011-05-22 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup, I remember SurveyFail, but I didn't bookmark anything because I wasn't yet publicly making fun of bad science. Thank you!

[identity profile] marag.livejournal.com 2011-05-22 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
::dies:: OMG, I didn't realize they blog at Psychology Today! I've just gotten done making fun of two other bloggers there! That place is like a hive of bad science.

[identity profile] odditycollector.livejournal.com 2011-05-22 12:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I bet they are right at home among such fare as "Why are black women the ugliest? Is it because everyone knows they are so stupid?"