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>For the rest of that semester and into the one that followed, Wu and the other women tested hundreds of their fellow undergrads. Most of the subjects did as th
by ouid 9y ago
>For the rest of that semester and into the one that followed, Wu and the other women tested hundreds of their fellow undergrads. Most of the subjects did as they were told, got their money, and departed happily. A few students—all of them white guys, Wu remembers—would hang around to ask about the research and to probe for flaws in its design. Wu still didn’t believe in ESP, but she found herself defending the experiments to these mansplaining guinea pigs. The methodology was sound, she told them—as sound as that of any other psychology experiment.
Calling the act of being skeptical towards a study designed to demonstrate ESP "mansplaining" is about as disingenuous as it gets.
- aaron695 9y agoThat pretty much sums up Slate in it's current form.
- dracht 9y agoI stopped reading there. You have got to give them credit for being able to inject some "white guys ugh am i right" message regardless of the story. Slate is garbage.
- lloydjatkinson 9y agoI fully agree, be careful though I recently found out the "SJW I hate whites" types are among the mods here.
- tome 9y agoIt's a shame you stopped because the rest of the article is very interesting. (SPOILER: The mainsplainers are proved correct)
- cafard 9y agoBut as somebody else points out, it might be the finest tribute Slate gives to white guy mansplainers this month. [edit: I fit at least two out of three descriptors...]