Article: Is the US military man enough for women on the frontline?

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**Melissia**

rockerbikie wrote:umanity is unstable but the disorders females are more likely to be undetected than males

You didn't actually read any of those articles, did you?

Or... any... psychological literature at all?

Mental conditions in men are less likely to be detected than in women because women are more likely to seek help. In fact, even keeping that in mind, the supposed mental conditions in women are themselves actually over-reported due to an inherent bias in psychology, as shown by the fact that given two patients, one of which is male and one female, with the same exact scores on tests for depression and the same exact symptoms, the psychologist is more likely to say the woman is depressed than the man.

A concept that was discussed in at least two of the articles I posted.

**Frazzled**

Everyone's crazy except me, thats what the wiener dogs tell me. Lets move on shall we.

**Melissia**

I think I'll also quote this:

Where gender differences were observed in the research examined, they were described as being about males, and less often than as being about females. Males are seen as the standard for the typical human subject. The research was published in the Review of General Psychology, by University of Surrey (UK) psychologists Peter Hegarty and Carmen Buechel. The authors systematically surveyed forty years of gender difference research in four journals published by the American Psychological Association.
[...]
The conclusion? Men may be the prototype for modern psychology’s picture of the typical person, but mothers remain the most typical kind of parent.
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Hegarty and Buechel also found that psychologists vastly preferred the phrase ‘more than’ over ‘less than’ when explaining gender differences. Put this together with the male-norm effect and you could reach the absurd conclusion that women and girls have more psychology than men and boys do.
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"[...] Our conclusion is not that psychologists should not study group differences, but that we serve the public better when we think deeply about the ways that we implicitly frame questions about whose behavior is the default standard norm and whose is made the subject of psychological scrutiny.”

http://psychcentral.com/news/2006/12/29/male-gender-bias-in-psychology-research-continues/513.html

Isn't the inherent sexism of our society just grand? Males aren't real parents according to psychology, men don't are bumbling simpletons with no complexity, and psychologists are gay (Well, we already knew that).

Fun tiiiimes.

**HonorHarrington**

HonorHarrington wrote:Women shouldn't serve in the military they are only S3/T3 in a S5/T5 world.

Let's try and avoid blanket sexism, please, or your tenure on Dakka will be very, very short. --Janthkin

Ah. I see. ITT it's ok to call other people's opinions "crap" and "horse gak" but having an opinion of your own is "impolite."

**Amaya**

A more accurate statline would be men are S4/T4 and women are S3/T3. Same BS, WS, W, LD, I, and attacks.

**HonorHarrington**

Amaya wrote:A more accurate statline would be men are S4/T4 and women are S3/T3. Same BS, WS, W, LD, I, and attacks.

I just wasn't sure if comparing SoB directly to SM would make sense, because SM are super human. And IG are decidedly worse in stats than SoB so I picked a number that wasn't 4.

**purplefood**

HonorHarrington wrote:
HonorHarrington wrote:Women shouldn't serve in the military they are only S3/T3 in a S5/T5 world.

Let's try and avoid blanket sexism, please, or your tenure on Dakka will be very, very short. --Janthkin

Ah. I see. ITT it's ok to call other people's opinions "crap" and "horse gak" but having an opinion of your own is "impolite."

Where do people say that and aren't MOD'ed?

**Kilkrazy**

Time to close this thread.

Congratulations on the high standard of submissions!