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Loren Booda
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I am trying to find a pattern between male and female concerns in this survey.
Pengwuino said:I am not very fearful of becoming impregnated
Gale said:oh, but i have my ways... mwa ha... mwa ha.. mwa hahahaha!
silly penguin...
Loren Booda said:Shows how slow I type. Basically, my purpose for this poll is both to show that men have much less empathy for the state of pregnancy than women, and do not associate sex with fear as much as women do - both arguments that women are violated enough without all of us guys deciding what they must do with their bodies.
Loren Booda said:Shows how slow I type. Basically, my purpose for this poll is both to show that men have much less empathy for the state of pregnancy than women, and do not associate sex with fear as much as women do - both arguments that women are violated enough without all of us guys deciding what they must do with their bodies.
Moonbear said:What, nobody's complained about the lack of an option along the lines of, "I have an irrational fear of..." or "I have a great fear of..."? I'm wondering, what's an unjustified fear of rape?
Why? I answered little fear. Why should I fear those things? I can do my best to prevent them, but I don't much live in fear. Men in prison might have a very justified fear of rape. And, usually when there's a possible unwanted pregnancy in question, I've known of plenty of guys who have been practically quaking in their boots while waiting for the results of the pregnancy test. It wasn't worded fear of getting pregnant, it was worded fear of starting an unwanted pregnancy. I guess you could also just choose to answer with your sex and nothing else if nothing else applies.franznietzsche said:I think the thing is so flawed it makes no difference. For men, the only options are little fear or no answer. What about lots of fear or no fear? For women the only choices are justifiable or no answer. They might have unjustifiable fear. Or not have any fear. Its completely useless. The statements are two part statements (having or not having fear, and a qualifier on what kind or how much), which means that there is more than one reason for not answering yes.
The survey is set up, as I read it, such that, the first three are if you are male, and the last 3 are if you are female, meaning a male is not supposed to respond to 5/6 and a female is not supposed to respond to 3/4. If this is not the case, then the results are even less meaningful, because you have no correlation between gender and the answers to the other questions, since you can't see who answered what. And if this is not the case, why is the second gender question halfway through?Moonbear said:I guess you could also just choose to answer with your sex and nothing else if nothing else applies.
franznietzsche said:The survey is set up, as I read it, such that, the first three are if you are male, and the last 3 are if you are female, meaning a male is not supposed to respond to 5/6 and a female is not supposed to respond to 3/4. If this is not the case, then the results are even less meaningful, because you have no correlation between gender and the answers to the other questions, since you can't see who answered what.
My point was that you cannot deduce WHY a person decided the choices did not apply to them from the fact that they only answer their gender because there are mutliple potential reasons. You cannot claim that a woman who did not respond to 3 has no fear of being raped. Perhaps she does feel her fear is unwarranted. Doesn't mean there is no fear.
moose said:If all the guys who visit PF were in jail right now, with access to the internet, I believe that they would be scared of rape more than most women are O_O
It's not called jail for penguins, it's a zoo! *throws pengwuino another fish*Pengwuino said:You mean I am the only one?
Loren Booda said:Please offer an example of how you would word such a survey, trying to compare the concern of men vs women over their feeling of personal security as regards pregnancy and rape, and therefore abortion. Maybe this topic is best addressed by written responses, not a poll.
Loren Booda said:Please offer an example of how you would word such a survey, trying to compare the concern of men vs women over their feeling of personal security as regards pregnancy and rape, and therefore abortion. Maybe this topic is best addressed by written responses, not a poll.
Is that a triple negative or just a double negative? Or is it something in between - kind of like a double axel is to a double and a triple lutz?Moonbear said:Now, even an unplanned pregnancy wouldn't be unwanted.
Loren Booda said:If I were to redo this poll, I would group together the 2 questions on gender, followed by the 2 yes or no questions with "little fear of being raped," followed by 2 yes or no (amended) questions with "concerned about being raped."
There are public polls. For example.Franz said:That would work if you could see who answered what, which unless I'm missing something, you can't do in the PF poll system.
Shouldn't need that, as it will affect both genders equally, thus drop out of the equation.BobG said:You would probably need an age range in there somewhere as well. Grandparents probably aren't too worried about unplanned pregnancies.
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