I ask a lot of questions

Monday, July 09, 2007

I call BS

I found a link to this story, and I'm calling bs. The authors may have PhDs, but I must say I'm forced to question who granted them. I've read some of these claims before (I guess when the media picked up on the research the first time), but I still have a hard time swallowing all of these claims. It seems like they're using a bunch of untestable hypotheses in order to make excuses for men's bad behavior. I, of course, clearly have bones to pick with their last claim - that men sexually harass women because they're not sexist, and I'm afraid of what will happen when some man who has been fired for sexually harassing a woman tries to use their "research" to say they are not being discriminatory.

Now, I do not doubt that evolution has played a role in the way humans behave. I just have problems with people confusing correlation and causation to put simplifying labels on complex behavior, particularly when they seem to be picking and choosing which ideas to apply where.

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