MXH wrote:
DogsWithoutHorses wrote:
Chronos wrote:
DogsWithoutHorses wrote:
If people are going to be making blanket assertions about the behavior of half the population I want to see some evidence, meaning well done, peer reviewed studies. Anecdotes/personal experience are not enough to vouch for the behavior of all or even most women. I sincerely doubt anyone has had the time/inclination to meet most of the women in the world.
If you want to say something is true, prove it.
Most researchers haven't met most people with AS but that doesn't stop them from writing about us.
And the point of your irrelevant statement is?
There is a difference between people you meet in your life and a representative sample.
he actually has a point on that last message. Most research is done with relatively small groups, and that ends up being "well done, peer reviewed studies".
Whatever their point is, it's miles away from the topic.
That has no bearing on the validity of unfounded generalization.
A single individual making a declarative statement based on their personal experience with however many people they have met is not the same as research. Methodology exists for a reason.
In any case, that's not the topic of this thread.
If you want to support the assertions of the poster I was asking for proof by all means do that.
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