There's plenty of ways to nitpick the study. But I think you chose the wrong one: They rate people on a hostility-to-men scale of 0-6. With the highest hostility coming in at 2.7, and assuming that scores under 3 are likely not a highly hostile response, I'd say that says none of their groups is hostile to men on average. (I'd guess it's along the lines of "periodically irked by" as opposed to "hostile")
In case you're curious, I think the most obvious nitpick from those tables is that it didn't include standard deviations or other information which would indicate whether the differences are actually statistically significant. For example, I'll bet that the 2.6 vs 2.7 among non-white women is not a statistically significant difference. They hopefully have this information elsewhere, but it's hard to draw specific conclusions from what's in that blog post as a result.
Still, even if the differences aren't statistically significant, that lack of difference does point to the perfectly reasonable "feminists aren't man-haters" conclusion.
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Re: feminists
Date: August 7th, 2009 06:51 am (UTC)In case you're curious, I think the most obvious nitpick from those tables is that it didn't include standard deviations or other information which would indicate whether the differences are actually statistically significant. For example, I'll bet that the 2.6 vs 2.7 among non-white women is not a statistically significant difference. They hopefully have this information elsewhere, but it's hard to draw specific conclusions from what's in that blog post as a result.
Still, even if the differences aren't statistically significant, that lack of difference does point to the perfectly reasonable "feminists aren't man-haters" conclusion.