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Mary’s helpful guide to soliciting research participation on the ‘net

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In my years on the ‘net, I’ve seen any number of people want to interview others or get them to take surveys for everything from a short high school or undergraduate paper through to graduate research projects and books. And they so seldom manage to meet basic ethical guidelines for making sure they aren’t wasting their participants’ time at best or endangering them at worst.

You won’t be surprised to hear…

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[Potential Trigger warning] … that a study has just discovered that rapists don’t usually have rapist tattoed on their forehead.  THE typical rapist is a charmer, not a misfit, new research shows. He is talkative, engaging and employed in a… Read More ›

Sex Bias in BioMedicine

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Women remain vastly underrepresented in biomedical research despite significant differences in the way they experience many diseases, medications and therapies compared to men. Despite federal mandates to include women in studies, there is much that still needs to be done, says Teresa Woodruff, a leading women’s health scientist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in a June 9 commentary in the journal Nature.

Rape myths, rape myth acceptance, and community perceptions of victims of sexual violence

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Elsewhere, grave doubt was expressed that attitudes of holding women responsible for sexual violence directed towards them was in fact a popular community view, to the extent that a position paper from an academic conference was mercilessly mocked for this sentence:

Women who are raped or who suffer domestic violence are somehow thought of in the popular imagination as a stereotype. According to this, the women are asking for it, dressed inappropriately, provoking it – responsible for it.