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Is There Anything Good About Men? (2007)

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Was going to just clean the text up and paste it here, until I realized how long it was.

Converted the .doc file to PDF and fixed up the formatting to be a bit better:

Left Justified: https://s3.amazonaws.com/hnstuff/GoodAbtMenAPATalk.pdf

Full Justified: https://s3.amazonaws.com/hnstuff/GoodAbtMenAPATalk-fulljusti...

Also provided URL to original document in header of each page.

Thanks for fixing this up. It really is an excellent article.

The formatting of that page is truly wretched. It's nearly unreadable in that format.

Even more annoying than the format is the fact that there are missing spaces between lots of words.

Better formatted version here:

http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm

My question would be: is there anything good about this type of research?

Outside of academia, I don't think that anyone pays any serious mind the conclusions of these studies.

>I don't think that anyone pays any serious mind the conclusions of these studies.

Quite a few people do, actually. The /r/mensrights subreddit, for example, has almost 80,000 readers at the moment.

I don't think this really relates to the "men's rights" stuff. I think all the paper does is show that the bellcurve for men is flatter and that men are nature's crapshoot.

For comparison, /r/sloths has 44k, /r/mildlyinfuriating has 80k, /r/creepypms has 87k and /r/animalsbeingjerks has 100k.

A better comparison would be to say that /r/mensrights is currently the 201st biggest subreddit:

http://www.redditlist.com/page-2

note: please do not take this comment as me subscribing to the views of that subreddit. I just like Reddit stats.

Politicians might pick the ideas up, eventually. I don't think you can change a complex system such as our society by writing some papers. But you can plant a seed.

Am I only one who finds this stuff disturbing and sexist? Author starts with some 'facts' and than just goes on and on with some speculations.

If sexist means it differentiates between the sexes, then of course. I really don't find this disparaging of women. But since we're both men (I think), it probably would be easier to get a women opinion.

Perhaps it could be sexist to men...

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