• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    15
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    They didn’t switch genders because that wasn’t the purpose of the study.

    The purpose of the study being to get the results they wanted to get. That’s not science.

    It’s basically a study of “do people like being assaulted”. No one does regardless of gender, but they took that as women don’t like being assaulted and men pretending to be women don’t like being assaulted. Therefore men pretending to be women in VR don’t like to be assaulted.

    What sort of conclusion is that.

    • Wren@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      It would help to read the study so you don’t have to be wrong about things.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        9
        ·
        2 days ago

        I did read it. It’s very very long though have you read all of it, I started to get bored when they started showing really complicated diagrams with no real explanation as to how they came to those conclusions.

        Social studies is like that, it’s very much couched in the sort of science that you would normally expect of physics or engineering but all it’s conclusions are fuzzy but they come out with these concrete graphs to explain very personal responses. I find it to be intellectually dishonest to suggest that you can represent the world like that

        • Wren@lemmy.today
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          10
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          2 days ago

          “I don’t understand it so it’s wrong,” isn’t a great way to prove a point.

          Social studies? Do you mean the neurology? Or the psychology? You know “fuzzy logic” is a form of math, right?

          Maybe you got bored when they explained what metrics they used and how they applied them.