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Study finds women are responsible for half of some online abuse on Twitter in UK

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Re: Study finds women are responsible for half of some online abuse on Twitter in UK

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Post by nxzero »

lambda wrote: post #12

This is self-published research by a think-tank, not a peer reviewed scholarly publication; also, the actual paper for this finding doesn't yet seem to be available, just summaries by news organizations. This article does link to some older papers by them, which go into very little detail on methodology. As such, it's really hard to say what kind of abuse they are talking about; slut shaming and rape threats, while b…

Is there any research that show being peer reviewed in fact makes a difference? General speaking, I would think research should just speak for itself.

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Post by vectorpush »

mark_chosenberg wrote: post #13

And most likely if you parsed specifically tweets containing the n word, you'd find most of said tweets are authored by black people. Not sure what the point of this article is.

Which "n word"? Do a simple twitter search with the two spelling variants and you'll immediately notice completely different results.

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Post by dsfyu404ed »

wrong_variable wrote: post #8

It makes sense. A 'whore/slut' women in a society has the most destructive effect on other women's sexual prospect. So I am surprised that there is a taboo against that - the only thing that surprised me is when men think its a bad thing - since it doesn't hurt them having many sexually adventurous women around.

80-20 rule, society runs more smoothly when the 80 gets laid more often.

Re: Study finds women are responsible for half of some online abuse on Twitter in UK

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Post by wonks »

anoonmoose wrote: post #11

I'd like to know what percentage of online abuse was directed at women. My hunch would have been 50/50 for dealing it out, but I am not so sure the split is even for taking it.

The article does link to one investigation from The Guardian about abusive comments left on articles written by journalists whose genders are known.

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Post by vectorpush »

ams6110 wrote: post #9

Make sense. Women are very prone to backstabbing and degrading others as a way to boost their own power and self-image. Look at any middle or high school female clique.

> Women are very prone....

> Look at any middle or high school female clique.

Re: Study finds women are responsible for half of some online abuse on Twitter in UK

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Post by chongli »

antihero wrote: post #16
beachstartup wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

don't worry, females are probably responsible for half of that other stuff too.

I don't see it that way at all. I think the sort of casually calling other women slags and hoes or whatever (ie normalised internalised misogyny) is a very different ball game to the gamergate style evil shit that happens.

Why not? Look at the case of Lori Drew [0]. She cyberbullied her daughter's friend into committing suicide. Women are not incapable of committing nasty stuff on the internet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Drew

Re: Study finds women are responsible for half of some online abuse on Twitter in UK

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Post by Aelinsaar »

nxzero wrote: post #21
lambda wrote: post #12

This is self-published research by a think-tank, not a peer reviewed scholarly publication; also, the actual paper for this finding doesn't yet seem to be available, just summaries by news organizations. This article does link to some older papers by them, which go into very little detail on methodology. As such, it's really hard to say what kind of abuse they are talking about; slut shaming and rape threats, while b…

Is there any research that show being peer reviewed in fact makes a difference? General speaking, I would think research should just speak for itself.

Generally speaking, you think... well that's nice. Meanwhile, in the world of the scientific method, the issue is that everyone needs to know that you didn't just write something down for fun or profit. If your results can't be replicated... thbbpt.

Re: Study finds women are responsible for half of some online abuse on Twitter in UK

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Post by zenogais »

lambda wrote: post #12

This is self-published research by a think-tank, not a peer reviewed scholarly publication; also, the actual paper for this finding doesn't yet seem to be available, just summaries by news organizations. This article does link to some older papers by them, which go into very little detail on methodology. As such, it's really hard to say what kind of abuse they are talking about; slut shaming and rape threats, while b…

It actually sounds like old research was either reproduced or simply read at a forum for stopping internet abuse (#ReclaimTheInternet) by this researcher (http://www.demos.co.uk/people/alex-krasodomski-jones-2/).

Another research paper, by a different author from the same think-tank, from 2013-14 had the same result: http://www.demos.co.uk/project/misogyny-on-twitter/

Re: Study finds women are responsible for half of some online abuse on Twitter in UK

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Post by zxcvvcxz »

> When an article makes a politically correct claim:

"Yeah I totally feel this is true, this one time [insert anecdote here]"

> When an article makes a not-so politically correct claim:

"Well it's not peer reviewed / look at the paper that's publishing it / this is the wrong definition / headline is misleading / [insert criticism not related to the claim]"

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