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The research suggests that since 2008, there has been "an empirically observable rise in young men sharing images of their worked-out bodies on social media pla
by kafkaesq 10y ago
The research suggests that since 2008, there has been "an empirically observable rise in young men sharing images of their worked-out bodies on social media platforms."
Because social media was still relatively new -- and image sharing barely a thing, back then?
He also interviewed a handful of young gym-going subjects and scoured the use of fitness-related hashtags on popular social media site Instagram, finding that a "large [proportion] of these are images of men displaying their muscular bodies."
That sounds really rigorous. Where can I get a job doing "research" like this?
- danieltillett 10y agoThis is actually pretty rigorous for the social sciences. When I was an academic (I was in the School of Pharmacy) I used to see these "qualitative" studies all the time by our students collaborating with the social scientists in other departments. These studies all consisted of unstructured interviews of a half dozen people with no clear hypothesis. The first time I was asked to mark a thesis writing up one of these studies I failed it. The other two markers both gave it an A. I was overruled and never invited to mark a similar thesis again. I at least tried to stop this rot :(