[psysec] Sex-withholding manipulation research

[Quinn Norton]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, Gadi Evron wrote:

> Sarah Gordon wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Gadi Evron <ge at linuxbox.org
> > <mailto:ge at linuxbox.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     There's new Israeli research from the Ariel University Center of
> >     Samaria which claims sex-withholding manipulation is done by the
> >     weaker partner in a relationship as a persuasion technique.
> >
> >
> >
> > I fear for the state of research if this is really 'new' to these
> > researchers.  Triangulation is not introduced by the paper - its a
> > concept every first year psychology student is familiar with. Maybe its
> > this migraine (yep, still got it), or maybe I'm just in a bad mood..but
> > as I read this article, all I could think was "oh they found out men are
> > less likely to withhold sex". Gee. Do you think?
>
> A friend of mine commented that if it is only women who do this, isn't
> calling those who do it the "weaker sex" kind of a bad way of going
> about it? He thinks they should have called it "women use sexual
> manipulation".

Wow, this is really worthless research. And really evidence of some of the
problems with science these days. What were their demographics? Did they
control for SES or political affiliation? Did they assess the libido of
the partners in question? Did they even define what 'varying power' power
in relationships meant? Or did they just design questionnaires that
"confirmed their intuition"?

Good science seeks to prove itself wrong, then when it fails- you know
you're on to something.

Quinn

Freelance Journalist & Photographer

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