3 Responses to “Settled Science”

1. Powhatan Mingo Says:
   July 30th, 2014 at 6:55 am

   One hundred and twelve undergraduate students volunteered for the study at a university in central Israel.

   Small sample size that is not representative of the population and is self-selected.

   Many sociological studies use self-selected undergrads (who are often compensated for volunteering), and who happen to attend the same university that conducts the research. The results are not applicable to the general population. This is what is maddening about the social sciences, often the ‘social scientists’ know when designing their experiment that its methodology is crap. They do it anyway, because its the only way they can get data and publish.
   The less a person knows about peer review, the more likely they are to think that ‘peer review’ means ‘true’.

2. nerdbert Says:
   July 30th, 2014 at 10:41 am

   Anyone who’s had a teenage daughter would have been able to tell you that. They all go through the “prefer jerks” stage. The smart ones graduate from that after a few bad experiences.

   Daughter: Why are you so suspicious of my boyfriends?
   Me: Because I was a teenage boy once.

3. Bill C Says:
   August 1st, 2014 at 3:57 pm

   In college, I was friendzoned by more than a few undergraduate women who preferred jerks to nice guys. And then they cried on my nice guy shoulder when their jerk boyfriends treated them as you would expect.

   Fortunately, as far as I know, most of them grew up and out of the “I want a bad boy boyfriend” phase by the time they hit their mid 20s. Too bad for them, by that time I was dating the woman that I married.

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