Simmaellersjunk skrev 2021-06-03 12:14:29 följande:
Sociologisk forskning har dock inte världens bästa rykte om sig då den inte alltid är vetenskaplig. Hur bevisar du maktstrukturer i ett samhälle till exempel, utan att bara hänvisa till samband?
Det finns gott om dåligt gjord (ovetenskaplig) forskning inom alla områden, för att inte säga forskningsfusk.
Detta är ett exempel på en studie som utförts flera gånger i olika länder med förbluffande lika resultat, som visar hur olika kvinnor och män döms:
"Sheryl Sandberg in her book "Lean In" cites an experiment conducted at Columbia Business School and New York University by professors Frank Flynn and Cameron Anderson, respectively. They selected the résumé of a real-life female entrepreneur who was quite successful and noted for her extroverted personality. The woman?s real name, Heidi, was placed on one set of identical résumés, and a man?s name, Howard, on another. Half of a group of business school students read one resume, and the other half the other. The result was remarkable. The students rated Heidi and Howard as equally competent. However, Howard was judged to be likable and a good colleague. Heidi, however, was seen as aggressive, selfish and not someone who would be a team player, and who they'd like to work with. This demonstrated the inherent bias that people carry within about typical gender roles and behaviors, and how men and women are judged by different rules, even when they are equally competent."