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[–] neonred 204 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I'm sorry but what an asshole of a teacher.

[–] PunnyName 89 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No need to be sorry, that's an asshole teacher.

[–] idunnololz 83 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a greentext so there's no way any of this is real.

[–] PunnyName 37 points 11 months ago

There are plenty of asshole teachers like this, however.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's ok, this never happened.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

With my experiences with teachers, I promise you this story is true

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

A teacher being a right cunt?

Yeah, this has happened.

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Who the fuck uses 7 point scales to rate something

[–] everyone_said 61 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A 7 point, or Likert scale, is extremely common in a lot of fields, particularly psychology and social sciences.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

What makes it really fun if your psych asks for multiple answers, some in a 7 point scale and some at a 10 point scale. And then forgets to say it every time. So you have to ask. :l

[–] VindictiveJudge 5 points 11 months ago

The Kinsey Scale, for example.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

A perfect 5/7

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

Anons in creative writing exercises like this ✍️

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People in social sciences.

[–] MindSkipperBro12 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

4 = Neutral
3 or 5 = Little
2 or 6 = Somewhat
1 or 7 = Heavily/Likely

1-7 works very well for scales involving how you feel about something

e.g. Kinsey Scale has 1 as only interested in opposite sex and 7 as only interested in same sex. 4 is could go either way, 3 is slightly more into opposite, 6 is heavily into same sex, etc.

[–] PunnyName 104 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The best response to that would be a nice and clear "and...?"

People have a hard time publicly voicing their clarifications after being called out.

[–] 13esq 3 points 11 months ago

And what if my testosterone is low?!

[–] [email protected] 59 points 11 months ago

"Any of you ladies want to get in touch with my feminine side, you know where to find me. 😘"

[–] qooqie 46 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No shit it’s correlated more women want kids than men. Professor was a dipshit

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Actually, multiple studies show that men have higher desire to have children than women.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Actually, that sounds like it's made up

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

It's interesting and sad how so many people state their sexist and stereotypical believes as facts. And than want proof their believes are wrong, otherwise they will continue to believe in their sexist beliefs as if they were facts, even without any proof for their own narrative.

I could ask you, why are you so sure women want children more?

Studies and national surveys of multiple countries show the opposite:

Gender differences in willingness for childbirth, fertility knowledge, and value of motherhood or fatherhood and their associations among college students in South Korea, 2021

Female students showed lower willingness for future childbirth than male students (χ2 = 26.85, p < .001). Women valued motherhood significantly less than men valued fatherhood (t = 6.34, p < .001). Women had a lower fertility knowledge score than men (t = 2.53 p = .012).

Why Young Women Are Less Interested In Marriage And Children Than Young Men

When it comes to having children a similar pattern emerged, with 67% of males saying they want to have children one day compared to 61% of females. Just 12% of males said they didn’t want children compared to 16% of females

Why do more men than women think children equal fulfillment?

Single und kinderlos: Vor allem Männer wünschen sich Nachwuchs

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

shhh, don't spoil the lad(and other like him)'s fantasies that women secretly all want children

remember kids, it's not misogyny if she secretly wants it (of course she does, she's a woman!) /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean you could also argue that the disparity comes from the severe cost of living crisis

Cost of living affordability is directly correlated with the desire in women to have children.

Basically women do want children as much as men do, they just aren't as stupid about it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Counterpoint: cost of living doesn't have any bearing on whether you want to, it just affects whether you will or not. There is no amount of money you could throw at me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yes, at you specifically, but for a lot of folks affordability does correlate with if they personally want to have a child, they aren't ideologically bound to one state or the other the way some child free or quiverfull folks are, the switch to want children is turned on for them if the conditions are met in their eyes where a child is possible to have and raise in a stable environment.

It's literally what happened with the baby boomers, and with Millennials and Zoomers too, although that one was linked to the subprime mortgage collapse, which ensuantly threw all those excess births into an unanticipated financial instability, which helped define the generation being extra weary of financial risks.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Props for pulling the sources!

Though the other commenter saying "that sounds like it is made up" is definitely not presenting an opinion as fact, it is challenging that you presented your opinion as fact (in the uninformed person's eyes) with no sources to back it up (in your original comment). But then you came with proof afterwards that it has indeed been studied and is a fact.

That does not mean that he was "stating his sexist stereotype as fact".

If I said:

"Multiple studies have shown that the majority of people think the earth is flat"

with no sources.

Then anyone would be very reasonable to say "that sounds like you are making it up" (which in this case is true).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I didn't realise it wasn't the same person. The original comment I reacted to wrote this:

No shit it’s correlated more women want kids than men. Professor was a dipshit

Which has 50 upvotes still. It shows me that people accept this theory without the need for sources out of sexist stereotyping. No one responded with "you are making it up". Instead it's accepted as truth.

While demanding sources when I write the opposite.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You didn't source what you stated, so it did sound made up. Thanks for providing some (no really, thank you)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Actually, you can find studies that confirm any bias you like.

What matters a lot more is what the body of research as a whole trends towards. Meta studies are the things to read, if you can get them.

[–] NightAuthor 12 points 11 months ago

I reviewed 500 studies, filtering for quality and sample size, ended up with 10 for my review, this body of works says X

Even meta analysis can have biases

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Men who want kids have lower testosterone" first of all bullshit, but let's assume its true. That means the men are older, not that they have more female characteristics.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I take testosterone supplements, solely to squash any inkling of the thought of having kids. Plus, the boosted T-levels may contribute to an earlier cardiovascular event, further reducing my chances of having a kid; it's a win-win all around

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Based as fuck, brother

[–] eran_morad 36 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Bruh already won by being the only dude in a class full of chicks.

[–] midori 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In my experience, it isn't really like that. I used to be the only guy in a medical transcription class in college. It was kind of like I was invisible most of the time, but the older women in the class treated me normally at least.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

As a guy who went to nursing school and was like one of 5 guys in a class of 80, it definitely isn't as great as it sounds. Mostly it means that there is a lot of cliques and your options are be ignored/ignore them, or get involved in which case there WILL be drama

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I was one of the 5 guys in my nursing class as well. Our class was a bit smaller, maybe 40, but I really vibed with it. I chose the option of seeming "aloof", so I could ignore the cliques and drama. I was in a relationship most of the time too, so that helped with being uninterested.

Only had a problem with one teacher for a semester (no idea why she was so hard on me), but after a visit to her office to help me improve my clinical paperwork, she lightened up. Actually became one of my favorites, even though still very scary

But idk, I kinda liked the almost-all-girl thing. Lots of attractive girls to hang out (and commiserate with), plus I had plenty enough guy time at work and with friends. It was a cool change of pace for me.

But also... fuck nursing school. Some of the most stressful years of my life. Girls or nah, you can't make me go back

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Agreed, 80 women in a grouping usually means a bunch of weird cliques. Meanwhile ya have 80 dude in grouping and you will end up with cliques they are usually subject based IE warhammer clique, weired car clique, sports clique and will dissolve and form at complete random.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

all my friends in school took shop. i took home ec.

[–] soupbowl 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the South Park episode where all the boys join Shop class except Kenny who goes into Home Ecs, and they do shit like this with him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Is that the one with the depressed shop teacher who comes within a hair of suicide several times? That one hit me hard.

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[–] RGB3x3 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"We want husbands that are going to make good fathers, but we're going to laugh at the ones that want to be good fathers."

What an impossible standard

[–] MindSkipperBro12 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Who said the other women wanted kids?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

If he wants 6 kids, he better get into pipe laying.

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