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>>"WTF is one supposed to glean from this gross generalization?" It's a survey :/ Data...
by axod 17y ago
>>"WTF is one supposed to glean from this gross generalization?"
It's a survey :/ Data...
- mahmud 17y agoStatistics is an effective tool for reinforcing stereotypes. Just because someone took the time to conduct a survey does not mean we should accept it blindly. This particular "survey" lacks the male control group :-) The article references a second survey, conducted in 2006 which proves my point: "The problem is likely not confined to women. A 2006 study in the United States found 6 percent of women have it so bad they are labeled compulsive buyers, but so are 5.5 percent of men." 0.5% difference between the compulsive shopping habits of men and women, smaller than any margin of error for a survey of this type. Yet women's "deviant" behavior merits a whole article.