http://mindhacks.com/2009/12/03/men-are-from-earth-women-are-from-earth/ Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/12/03/men-are-from-earth-women-are-from-earth/#comment-5171 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:59:58 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/men-are-from-earth-women-are-from-earth/#comment-5171 It would seem this information is getting out, albeit more slowly than when it is spread via broadcast media.
However, I disagree about it being ‘bad science’. I would say it is more like irresponsible media. The academic community knows to take these findings with a grain of salt, hence peer reviews. Therefor, policies tend to be based, or rather influenced, more on media popularization than on actual scientific research.
Unfortunately, the alternative resolution to this problem is regulation of the media, which is a bad idea on many levels. Regardless, issues like this do tend to resolve themselves in time because the ‘truth’ is leaked out and passed along in channels such as this blog and then via word of mouth. It is an inefficient process, but it does eventually correct popular misconceptions.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/12/03/men-are-from-earth-women-are-from-earth/#comment-5170 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:03:14 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/men-are-from-earth-women-are-from-earth/#comment-5170 This is a fascinating talk. In particular, the finding you have picked out that “Results that confirm our steroetypes get widely reported, others are largely ignored by the media.”
I wish we could get this information to more people. There are so many myths about what men and women, boys and girls, are like. The problem is that policies end up being based on bad science.

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