| MARCUSDJACKSON said: @Marks = sarcasm @snakenobi @leatherhat @Jumpin @pezus @UnknownFact @IIIIITHE1IIIII : yea, me to. like these guys have already mentioned, this should not shock you one bit. this goes for politicians aswell. no need to read the article. i'm sure the way they did the study was broken, but that doesn't take away the fact that it's true. |
Actually, it sorta does. Anyone who's gone through a bachelors degree in a science should know how to run a successful study to test just about anything.
When said studies don't use such methods, it's generally considered this is the case because the researcher wanted said result, as was afraid a decent study would disprove them.
The funny thing about the soical sciences? General perception seems wrong practically as a rule.
I can name about a dozen things off the top of my head that are so... a few quick ones?
Most people thing teen pregnancy, smoking, drug use, teen sex rates are up. They're all actually down, or around historic averages. Young people today are oddly more repsonsible then any have been for generations.
Most people expect democrats and liberals to be more chariatble, research tends to show the opposite, conservatives tend to donate more to charity...support for government welfare seems to correlate pretty evenly with distatse for private charity.
Sexual abuse of children is rampant in the catholic church. Rates of sexual abuse against children in the catholic church are actually far lower then average when it comes to various places. (The outrageous part is the way they handeld the rapists.)
Most people think rape has to do with sex. The vast majority of rapes actually have little to do with sex and more to do with a need to show power. As such, the way women dress is pretty irrelevent.
Most people thing stricter gunlaws prevent crimes. Generally when stricter gun laws are put in place crime rises, and when they are removed, crime decreases. Concealed carry laws being put in to place tends to lower crime.
