critique of purported 'straight women more emotionally sensitive' study

[cimorene]

I posted a critique of a highly dubious news headline on Tumblr here.

The headline that set me off was this tweet:


@pinknews: "STUDY: Straight women judge emotions and thoughts better than lesbian women"

In a nutshell, their sample was only 67 straight women and 43 lesbians. All the straight women were psychology undergrads from their university with a mean age of 19, while the gay test subjects were recruited via fliers in cafes/the internet and the top of their age range was over 30.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Gee, I wonder why the straight women did better.

[torachan]

dot dot dot

[vass]

In my recent n=1 study, 100% of lesbians currently eating Ben & Jerry's chocolate chip cookie dough while their tortoiseshell cat glared at them from on top of a pizza box reported being able to design a study that would control for variables better than that IN THEIR SLEEP. And so could their cat.