Posted on 02/10/2019 5:09:07 PM PST by Maceman
NYU Psychology professor Eric Knowles and doctoral student Sarah DiMuccio queried 300 men on Amazon's crowdsourcing platform Mechanical Turk to discover whether they had or would search for terms such as "erectile dysfunction," "how to get girls," "penis enlargement," "testosterone," and "Viagra," among others.
They discovered a high level of concern about masculinity "was strongly associated with interest in these search topics."
They then correlated the geopgrahic dispersion of these search topics in 2016 with how such areas voted in that year's election, finding "that support for Trump in the 2016 election was higher in areas that had more searches for topics such as 'erectile dysfunction.' Moreover, this relationship persisted after accounting for demographic attributes in media markets, such as education levels and racial composition, as well as searches for topics unrelated to fragile masculinity, such as 'breast augmentation' and 'menopause.'"
The researchers also checked relations between fragile masculinity and voting in 2008 and 2012, finding "that the correlation of fragile masculinity and voting in presidential elections was distinctively stronger in 2016" than it was when John McCain and Mitt Romney were Republican presidential candidates.
Similarly, in the over 390 House races which featured a Republican versus a Democrat, Republicans gained more support in areas with elevated search levels of terms related to fragile masculinity. "However, there was no significant relationship between fragile masculinity and voting in the 2014 or 2016 congressional elections. This suggests that fragile masculinity has now become a stronger predictor of voting behavior."
Knowles and DiMuccio noted that their findings should be considered with caveats. They said that fragile masculinity didn't decrease support for female candidates in 2018.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Rush will be all over this tomorrow.
Don't leave your women around too many of them, non Trump supporters. Once they go conservative they never go back. 8>)
“Fragile”?? Don’t you mean “none”?
Is he saying that us Trump supporters are Italian?
Excuse me, but WTF?
A million things I could say here, but you know.
The author of the article
Yep. Feminist true hate men. And in hating men, they hate themselves.
Veto! (the girl)
What a little soy boy wimp! Did you notice his shirt is a wrinkled mess? What a slob.
Liberals correlated highly with searches for “what are testicles?” and “which bathroom is for men?”
Democrats appeal to women with fragile femininity should be the headline. 600 pussy hat marches since Trump won. Democrats are exploiting women
That is a hoot. Conservative men are the masculine ones. THEY are not the ones crying about safe spaces and triggers unless they are talking about their guns.
Lifetime member of the 45 lb. bench press club!
Yes. If I were a soy boy in a Trump-voting district, I might be looking up ways to reinforce my masculinity.
Who approved such a weak research protocol?
You just can’t make this stuff up.
NO, I have no “fragile masculinity”...
I just dont believe in accepting faggots, ass munchers, fairies and transfaggots because they are mentally sick people...
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