Why does there seem to be a stigma attached to advocate for Men's Rights?

Paedantic Basterd · 08-12-2017, 05:49 PM

A correlation is simply an association. That association can be strong or weak. The ability of a scientific experiment to uncover strong or weak associations naturally differs depending on the nature of what is being studied. In the fields you mentioned, scientists are working largely with concrete variables, meaning it's easier to uncover strong associations.

Unfortunately, the brain, consciousness, and behaviour are wildly difficult variables to isolate and control. They're basically universes unto themselves. You can't really hold it against science or psychology that researchers are forced to work with weaker associations than in harder sciences due to the nature of what is being studied.

But yeah, a correlation is literally just a tendency for two variables to coincide, and that applies to the "harder" sciences you mentioned as much as it does to the social sciences; it's just much more difficult to eliminate all of the extraneous noise when you're trying to study something as abstract as "personality" or "emotional turmoil" or "well-being".

08-12-2017, 05:49 PM	#11 (permalink)
Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	A correlation is simply an association. That association can be strong or weak. The ability of a scientific experiment to uncover strong or weak associations naturally differs depending on the nature of what is being studied. In the fields you mentioned, scientists are working largely with concrete variables, meaning it's easier to uncover strong associations. Unfortunately, the brain, consciousness, and behaviour are wildly difficult variables to isolate and control. They're basically universes unto themselves. You can't really hold it against science or psychology that researchers are forced to work with weaker associations than in harder sciences due to the nature of what is being studied. But yeah, a correlation is literally just a tendency for two variables to coincide, and that applies to the "harder" sciences you mentioned as much as it does to the social sciences; it's just much more difficult to eliminate all of the extraneous noise when you're trying to study something as abstract as "personality" or "emotional turmoil" or "well-being".