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If a study says something is overblown, check to see if it provides a correct level of blown-ness or a threshold for something to be a reasonable moral panic. I
by tlb 7y ago
If a study says something is overblown, check to see if it provides a correct level of blown-ness or a threshold for something to be a reasonable moral panic. If not, they haven't provided a falsifiable hypothesis.
In this case, they have a survey with numbers of how many teens sext. What numbers would have resulted in a different conclusion?
To me, "18% of 15-year-olds reporting that they sext" seems like a lot of people doing something extremely dangerous.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoThe official press release is even worse about this. It leads off with "The good news is that adolescent "sexting" is not at epidemic levels as reported in some media headlines". 18% is epidemic levels. Also of interest in the press release: > Among those students who were asked to send a sext by someone who was not a current romantic partner, only 43 percent complied. Assuming that's 43% of the people who admit to participating in sexting in the first place... this still seems shockingly high. "Only" 43 percent? press release: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/fau-nso071719.php https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/fau-nso07171... SciHub: http://sci-hub.tw/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-1449-y http://sci-hub.tw/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/...
- amluto 7y agoIs Sci-Hub actually expected to work on mobile? It seems to just redirect to localhost.
- tomcam 7y agoThe second link was malformed. Here is a working version: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-1449-y https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-1449-y
- thaumasiotes 7y agoNo, the second link was not malformed. It works and it is like that intentionally. My link shows the paper. Your link will sell the paper for $40.
- tomcam 7y agoSorry! Thanks for the correction.
- tomcam 7y agoSecond link should be https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-1449-y https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-1449-y
- adrianN 7y agoWhat is extremely dangerous about sexting? Honest question.
- romaaeterna 7y agoAs a parent, I feel that I have some responsibility to provide my daughters with the best life outcome possible. Examples of failed life outcomes would be drug addiction, poverty, suicide, or dying alone with their cats. There are many more. In general, unrestrained sexual behavior tend to be bad for your odds ratio. That's not even getting to positive life outcomes, which involve developing fully as a human being, and with full and deep relationships to the other human beings around you. Unrestrained sexual behavior tends to be bad for this too. In case you've ever wondered, this is also why sex on television is so much worse than violence on television. Seeing a murder on television doesn't really alter my children's odds ratio for becoming a violent criminal too much. But seeing a lot of sex on television makes it much more likely that they'll take sex less seriously than is good for them.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> In general, unrestrained sexual behavior tend to be bad for your odds ratio. On the other hand, it's great at avoiding the "dying alone with your cats" failure mode.
- not_a_cop75 7y agoI've heard of fat shaming, and sex shaming, but cat shaming? Let people like their animals, damn it!
- romaaeterna 7y ago> On the other hand, it's great at avoiding the "dying alone with your cats" failure mode. For a woman? You really think so? My impression has been that unstable relationships tend to make stable pair bonds far less likely in the future (for men too, but not quite as starkly). Further, women have a much easier time forming lifelong bonds in their 20s and early 30s than in their 40s and 50s (men too, but the effect is not as stark). In fact, I'd even go so far as to say that if someone really wanted to maximize their chances of dying alone, unstable sexual relationships throughout their peak reproductive years is by far the best method.
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- celticmusic 7y agohow is sexting extremely dangerous?
- cultus 7y agoBecause teens are having sex and it is upsetting to parents.
- celticmusic 7y agosexting is not sex.
- ceejayoz 7y agoSexting is a form of sexual behavior. Parents get worked up over all sorts of sex-adjacent behavior - some flip out over holding hands or kissing on the cheek.
- celticmusic 7y agoYour description is a far cry from "extremely dangerous". Which is what prompted the question. How is sexting extremely dangerous?
- not_a_cop75 7y agoI'm sure this depends a lot on who you talk to as well. If you talk a church or synagogue leader, likely any amount of texting is considered inappropriate and harmful. However, if you're talking to parents that take their kids crossdressing at gay bars, it's much more difficult to know when their compass actually hits any moral outrage. The even more difficult take home is to understand which camp the researching and reporting groups actually represent, because either has the capability of distortion to their preferences.
- zamadatix 7y agoIf an article makes a claim about a study, check to see if the study actually makes the claim. If not the article is just clickbait and you should look at what the study actually set out to do instead.
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- mc32 7y agoAlso unknown is whether the “panic” affects or has affected behavior or not.