Any one of my readers, friends, family, acquaintances could have told the researchers the answer that the report in the following post from Slashdot.org found concerning scientists. Of course, we must be scientific and show that our answer is correct! Anyone want to place a bet on the answer to a similar question concerning politicians?
Male Scientists More Prone To Misconduct269
Posted by Soulskillon Wednesday January 23, @05:26PM
from the it's-a-guy-thing dept.
from the it's-a-guy-thing dept.
sciencehabit writes "Male scientists — especially at the upper echelons of the profession — are far more likely than women to commit misconduct. That's the bottom line of a new analysis by three microbiologists of wrongdoing in the life sciences in the United States. Ferric Fang of the University of Washington, Seattle; Joan Bennett of Rutgers University; and Arturo Casadevall of Albert Einstein College of Medicine combed through misconduct reports on 228 people released by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) over the last 19 years. They then compared the gender balance — or imbalance, in this case — against the mix of male and female senior scientists and trainees to gauge whether misconduct was more prevalent among men. A remarkable 88% of faculty members who committed misconduct were men, or 63 out of 72 individuals. The number of women in that group was one-third of what one would expect based on female representation in the life sciences."
Some of the studies, that we taxpayers subsidize, have such obvious answers that I am amazed they bother. This is one example, another is a study done at least a decade ago that concluded that women take longer in public restrooms than men. Really? Who would have thunk it? Just because women have to take off most of their clothes every time they use the facility, then they are usually the ones to take the kids in, and a couple of other reasons I can think of the top of my head - jeeze couldn't come up with that conclusion in say, about 20 seconds. But no, we have to have these studies that researchers got paid good money for. I would have given them the answer for about $10.
Posted by: bogie | January 26, 2013 at 06:53 AM
It just goes to show, we are in the wrong business! We could make oodles of money by "doing" studies!
Posted by: Dudette | January 26, 2013 at 09:20 AM
Bogie--You really meant that it would have taken you 20 milliseconds, didn't you?
Dudette--The USAF got so frustrated with the endless studies that a contractor to them proposed, once, that a good colonel stood up to say, "No more f-ing studies!"
Had we been so inclined, I'm sure that the three of us could have been zillionaires from doing studies, by now. But...it's hard to enjoy a zillion dollars when they have carted us off to the funny farm!
Posted by: Cop Car | January 26, 2013 at 05:41 PM
I could have come up with the answer in 20 milliseconds, but you have to set the stage and look very thoughtful about it so that people think that you are really smart in deducing such stuff - LOL
Posted by: bogie | January 27, 2013 at 06:30 AM