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 ...
I have never seen male with concave pectorals before.
Methinks they are trying reverse psychology...
How about, it ain’t cool to be macho...
Definitely. I’m saying a beta male cuck.
The girl assistant is hot. I refuse to post her picture in order to spare her the shame of our ridicule.
So, which is it? Toxic masculinity or fragile masculinity? These people are idiots and they are supposedly the educated specialists in psychology.
SAEMPER FI
Sounds like psychological warfare to me.
That should have been SEMPER FI, I was typing in the dark.
BEAN?
So democrats are alpha males??? Laughable.
Well duh. Testosterone is officially banned in the rat party.
Is that Ron Reagan Jr’s cuckier twin ? What a schvantz.
Check out the photos of our Donald.
SJWs always *PROJECT*
SJWs always *double down*
Many fine programmers have wrinkled shirts.
Too bad he's not one of them. /Learn to code>
And there are a lot of women, usually liberal, who hate men. I wish they would just let it go. They will never be happy and they will never know why because they will never be able to see beyond their own resentment.
The guy looks like Pee-wee Herman.
There is zero proof that the answers 300 self-selected men on Amazon’s crowdsourcing platform who responded to the questions on Google searches about “erectile-dysfunction”, “how to get girls”, “testosterone”, Viagra”, etc., were in any way related to a geographic tendency of an area they may have been associated with to tend to vote conservative. No causal link was established beyond an assumption in the researchers’ mind.
Pray tell why would any of 300 men search for “breast augmentation” as a topic and how would that have any correlation with their voting pattern?
Finally, how does a medical condition such as “erectile dysfunction” have anything to do with “fragile masculinity?”
Exactly......amen
Liberal sites will shut down their comments section or forum if conservatives begins to dominate
IMDB used to have arguably the largest forum on the internet to discuss film and tv
Liberals ruled and when I started noticing more and more conservatives like me braving it and making an impact where you no longer felt like a lone wolf...I wasn’t the only freeper there
They canned the forum suddenly claiming too much trouble even though it was wildly successful
Same thing at Rotten Tomatoes
If you even smell conservative Reality Tea forum zots you
I see Hill.com and Mediaite have a large block of righties who are pretty sharp
Has to bug jackass Elliot Abrams at mediaite
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