Tuesday, February 09, 2021

Publicly funded Junk science. Junk "news"-----Campus Reform | Academic study's title claims conservative students hold 'sexual prejudice,' but its conclusion offers key admission

Campus Reform | Academic study's title claims conservative students hold 'sexual prejudice,' but its conclusion offers key admission
  • An academic study found that conservatives hold more "sexual prejudice" toward the LGBT community.
  • The researchers caution that their study only surveyed college-aged students.
A study from university psychology professors attributes “sexual prejudice” among conservative students to less empathy.
...According to PsyPost, a team of psychologists asked 1,143 heterosexual students to report their political ideology on social issues and scored their responses on a scale between “very liberal” and “very conservative," then instructed them to complete surveys that measured their tendencies toward empathy and sexual prejudice. 
...The authors, however, stated in their study that they "cannot" definitively say that political ideology is influencing empathy, according to PsyPost.
“Our study was also non-experimental, and we cannot say for sure that political ideology is influencing empathy,” explains Marsden...Read all.

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