Is There Anything Good About Men? (2007)

[S4M]

http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm

[TheSwordsman]

Was going to just clean the text up and paste it here, until I realized how long it was.

Converted the .doc file to PDF and fixed up the formatting to be a bit better:

Left Justified: https://s3.amazonaws.com/hnstuff/GoodAbtMenAPATalk.pdf

Full Justified: https://s3.amazonaws.com/hnstuff/GoodAbtMenAPATalk-fulljusti...

Also provided URL to original document in header of each page.

[skylan_q → TheSwordsman]

Thanks for fixing this up. It really is an excellent article.

[zedpm]

The formatting of that page is truly wretched. It's nearly unreadable in that format.

[greenyoda → zedpm]

Even more annoying than the format is the fact that there are missing spaces between lots of words.

[elgabogringo]

Better formatted version here:

http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm

[Spooky23]

My question would be: is there anything good about this type of research?

Outside of academia, I don't think that anyone pays any serious mind the conclusions of these studies.

[throwaway-00 → Spooky23]

>I don't think that anyone pays any serious mind the conclusions of these studies.

Quite a few people do, actually. The /r/mensrights subreddit, for example, has almost 80,000 readers at the moment.

[yummyfajitas → throwaway-00]

For comparison, /r/sloths has 44k, /r/mildlyinfuriating has 80k, /r/creepypms has 87k and /r/animalsbeingjerks has 100k.

[graeme → yummyfajitas]

A better comparison would be to say that /r/mensrights is currently the 201st biggest subreddit:

http://www.redditlist.com/page-2

note: please do not take this comment as me subscribing to the views of that subreddit. I just like Reddit stats.

[skylan_q → throwaway-00]

I don't think this really relates to the "men's rights" stuff. I think all the paper does is show that the bellcurve for men is flatter and that men are nature's crapshoot.

[manmal → Spooky23]

Politicians might pick the ideas up, eventually. I don't think you can change a complex system such as our society by writing some papers. But you can plant a seed.

[altero]

Am I only one who finds this stuff disturbing and sexist? Author starts with some 'facts' and than just goes on and on with some speculations.

[norswap → altero]

If sexist means it differentiates between the sexes, then of course. I really don't find this disparaging of women. But since we're both men (I think), it probably would be easier to get a women opinion.

[altero → norswap]

Perhaps it could be sexist to men...