Canadian researchers have found that men who hold virulent misogynistic opinions against women are more likely to express interest in having sex with robots
Wait, so the people more likely to want to control a woman are interested in a woman you can control…
Man how do you become a researcher, seems like an easy gig.
The ‘this is plausible’ is actually the first 0.01% of research, finding out whether the plausible explanation actually holds water statistically (or whatever) and making sure no sort of bias goes into your results is the part that’s hard
Wait, so the people more likely to want to control a woman are interested in a woman you can control…
Man how do you become a researcher, seems like an easy gig.
The ‘this is plausible’ is actually the first 0.01% of research, finding out whether the plausible explanation actually holds water statistically (or whatever) and making sure no sort of bias goes into your results is the part that’s hard
Yeah, it’s one thing to guess, it’s another to have it in hard numbers.
I think it’s more like:
Men who think of women as objects are more interested in objects as women.
You could also interpret this as “men who hate women are more likely to want to replace women”
We can’t know to what degree each dimension holds unless we do more experiments, but at that point how much do we really care?
Getting tenure is the hard part, after that you’re golden