What do you guys think of this? An Australian study has found that a woman with post-secondary education is slightly more likely to orgasm regularly. Do you buy it? If it is true, care to offer any explanations as to why?
What do you guys think of this? An Australian study has found that a woman with post-secondary education is slightly more likely to orgasm regularly. Do you buy it? If it is true, care to offer any explanations as to why?
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If you want to know whether or not to buy it, read up on a whole bunch of Anne Fausto-Sterling!
http://bms.brown.edu/faculty/f/afs/af...
Read them, read them, read them! They're a little wordy if you haven't had a lot of college-level reading homework yet, but be patient, underline as you need to, and keep on reading, ladies.
They're worth it. You will--I guarantee it--know how to look at a study and see whether it's "good science" (good use of the scientific method) in support of a hypothesis with social implications or "bad science" (bad use of the scientific method) in support of an assertion (which might not be published as a clear, refutable (or "falsifiable," in the worlds of Karl Popper) hypothesis--definitely a violation of the scientific method!)
I do hope some people comment on this post after reading some Sterling and then the study. I'd love to hear more women, scientists and humanities-types alike, be able to analyze scientific press articles. :-D
Posted by Katie
October 6, 2006, 8:39 AM
In general, studies that "prove" (or even assert) something based on correlation are pretty questionable. Overlapping circles (some members of group A also belong to group B) aren't the same as a causal link - and if it's not causal, I don't know what the value is. (I can't access the study, so maybe there is more to it than just linking two incidence rates?)
A sidebar question (from the article teaser on globeandmail.com) - why are women's orgasms so often described as something you "reach", rather than something you have? As in, "I think there was an orgasm there, I just couldn't quite reach it". There's something about that phrase that externalizes orgasms. Like it's not something your body is inherently capable of, but something you're trying to grasp outside of yourself...
But back to the study. Even if it is scientifically suspect, I'm pretty happy with anything that means more women having more orgasms more regularly. Post-secondary education, managing a team, wearing the colour purple - whatever does it for you.
Posted by catherine
October 12, 2006, 12:07 PM
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