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[–] neonred@lemmy.world 205 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I'm sorry but what an asshole of a teacher.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 90 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No need to be sorry, that's an asshole teacher.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 84 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a greentext so there's no way any of this is real.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago

There are plenty of asshole teachers like this, however.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's ok, this never happened.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 years ago

With my experiences with teachers, I promise you this story is true

[–] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

A teacher being a right cunt?

Yeah, this has happened.

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 118 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Who the fuck uses 7 point scales to rate something

[–] everyone_said@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A 7 point, or Likert scale, is extremely common in a lot of fields, particularly psychology and social sciences.

[–] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 8 points 2 years ago

What makes it really fun if your psych asks for multiple answers, some in a 7 point scale and some at a 10 point scale. And then forgets to say it every time. So you have to ask. :l

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The Kinsey Scale, for example.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 33 points 2 years ago

A perfect 5/7

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago

Anons in creative writing exercises like this ✍️

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People in social sciences.

[–] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Icalasari@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

4 = Neutral
3 or 5 = Little
2 or 6 = Somewhat
1 or 7 = Heavily/Likely

1-7 works very well for scales involving how you feel about something

e.g. Kinsey Scale has 1 as only interested in opposite sex and 7 as only interested in same sex. 4 is could go either way, 3 is slightly more into opposite, 6 is heavily into same sex, etc.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 105 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The best response to that would be a nice and clear "and...?"

People have a hard time publicly voicing their clarifications after being called out.

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

And what if my testosterone is low?!

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 58 points 2 years ago

"Any of you ladies want to get in touch with my feminine side, you know where to find me. 😘"

[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No shit it’s correlated more women want kids than men. Professor was a dipshit

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 20 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Actually, multiple studies show that men have higher desire to have children than women.

[–] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Actually, that sounds like it's made up

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

It's interesting and sad how so many people state their sexist and stereotypical believes as facts. And than want proof their believes are wrong, otherwise they will continue to believe in their sexist beliefs as if they were facts, even without any proof for their own narrative.

I could ask you, why are you so sure women want children more?

Studies and national surveys of multiple countries show the opposite:

Gender differences in willingness for childbirth, fertility knowledge, and value of motherhood or fatherhood and their associations among college students in South Korea, 2021

Female students showed lower willingness for future childbirth than male students (χ2 = 26.85, p < .001). Women valued motherhood significantly less than men valued fatherhood (t = 6.34, p < .001). Women had a lower fertility knowledge score than men (t = 2.53 p = .012).

Why Young Women Are Less Interested In Marriage And Children Than Young Men

When it comes to having children a similar pattern emerged, with 67% of males saying they want to have children one day compared to 61% of females. Just 12% of males said they didn’t want children compared to 16% of females

Why do more men than women think children equal fulfillment?

Single und kinderlos: Vor allem Männer wünschen sich Nachwuchs

[–] SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

shhh, don't spoil the lad(and other like him)'s fantasies that women secretly all want children

remember kids, it's not misogyny if she secretly wants it (of course she does, she's a woman!) /s

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean you could also argue that the disparity comes from the severe cost of living crisis

Cost of living affordability is directly correlated with the desire in women to have children.

Basically women do want children as much as men do, they just aren't as stupid about it.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Counterpoint: cost of living doesn't have any bearing on whether you want to, it just affects whether you will or not. There is no amount of money you could throw at me.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, at you specifically, but for a lot of folks affordability does correlate with if they personally want to have a child, they aren't ideologically bound to one state or the other the way some child free or quiverfull folks are, the switch to want children is turned on for them if the conditions are met in their eyes where a child is possible to have and raise in a stable environment.

It's literally what happened with the baby boomers, and with Millennials and Zoomers too, although that one was linked to the subprime mortgage collapse, which ensuantly threw all those excess births into an unanticipated financial instability, which helped define the generation being extra weary of financial risks.

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Props for pulling the sources!

Though the other commenter saying "that sounds like it is made up" is definitely not presenting an opinion as fact, it is challenging that you presented your opinion as fact (in the uninformed person's eyes) with no sources to back it up (in your original comment). But then you came with proof afterwards that it has indeed been studied and is a fact.

That does not mean that he was "stating his sexist stereotype as fact".

If I said:

"Multiple studies have shown that the majority of people think the earth is flat"

with no sources.

Then anyone would be very reasonable to say "that sounds like you are making it up" (which in this case is true).

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

I didn't realise it wasn't the same person. The original comment I reacted to wrote this:

No shit it’s correlated more women want kids than men. Professor was a dipshit

Which has 50 upvotes still. It shows me that people accept this theory without the need for sources out of sexist stereotyping. No one responded with "you are making it up". Instead it's accepted as truth.

While demanding sources when I write the opposite.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

You didn't source what you stated, so it did sound made up. Thanks for providing some (no really, thank you)

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Actually, you can find studies that confirm any bias you like.

What matters a lot more is what the body of research as a whole trends towards. Meta studies are the things to read, if you can get them.

[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I reviewed 500 studies, filtering for quality and sample size, ended up with 10 for my review, this body of works says X

Even meta analysis can have biases

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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Men who want kids have lower testosterone" first of all bullshit, but let's assume its true. That means the men are older, not that they have more female characteristics.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I take testosterone supplements, solely to squash any inkling of the thought of having kids. Plus, the boosted T-levels may contribute to an earlier cardiovascular event, further reducing my chances of having a kid; it's a win-win all around

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

Based as fuck, brother

[–] soupbowl@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the South Park episode where all the boys join Shop class except Kenny who goes into Home Ecs, and they do shit like this with him.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Is that the one with the depressed shop teacher who comes within a hair of suicide several times? That one hit me hard.

[–] nyandere@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"We want husbands that are going to make good fathers, but we're going to laugh at the ones that want to be good fathers."

What an impossible standard

[–] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who said the other women wanted kids?

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[–] rustyricotta@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

If he wants 6 kids, he better get into pipe laying.

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