A sexual harassment survey of 600 men
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On the other hand, the NYT is not a scientific journal. Supposedly, they know what makes people interested in a topic. They want to start a public conversation, and while that's innocent and beneficial enough, they're starting the conversation on the wrong foot, and commentators like me end up having to talk about what I talked instead.
It would also be interesting if they brought up women-on-men harassment figures, if only to point that the numbers are so much lower, and other data that suggests that this might be indicative of cultural differences between how men and women in the West are raised (and not some innate male proclivity to harass that supposedly has to be socially repressed).
... or incredibly harmful.
I think you should carefully reread that comment, that's not what I got out of it.
Self-reporting bias would certainly have some effect, but not as much as brute similarity of worldviews regarding women, gender, sex, workplace etc. Like attracts like. Nothing fishy about that.
A lot of things are possible. Maybe Trump supporters are more likely to harass or maybe they surprisingly aren't; the most dangerously effective misogynist is one that adopts the language of political correctness but not the beliefs. This requires further study.
It's worth noting the social desirability bias here. It's likely the problem is actually much worse than the study indicates.
This comment is not HN caliber and a lot of you know this and still upvoted. I sincerely hope some of you grow up or find a new community to trash in 2018.
If you send a friend a direct message on slack with a comic that other people might find offensive, or reference something that they did the night or week before, would that fall into multiple categories?
I've designed surveys before and been trained to do so in a way that limits inherent bias. This doesn't seem to be a well thought out or designed survey set. Also, what is a SQL server reporting system doing asking people about sexual harassment?
The issue is the editorialising the results, and not providing the other questions they asked, the actual results, or a more detailed description of the methodology.
If they did that we could ignore the article and potentially discovery something useful in the results.
> Also, what is a SQL server reporting system doing asking people about sexual harassment?
That's gone over my head.
"About a third of men said they had done something at work within the past year that would qualify as objectionable behavior or sexual harassment"
Objectionable behaviour: doing something your boss doesn't like, breaking process, even being an outspoken feminist could be considered objectionable behaviour. If you have not completed one "objectionable" action in a year you must be a robot.
"Made remarks that some might consider sexist or offensive?" - There are so many acceptable remarks that some might consider "offensive". Eg. "God is not real".
Seems like bad research to lump these sets together and then present it strictly as a survey on sexual harassment.
Is that really how we draw the line? Someone, anyone just has to be offended?
I think we really need to reevaluate sexual harassment law and culture.
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