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Size Matters? Penis Dissatisfaction and Gun Ownership in America (journals.sagepub.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

To assess penis size dissatisfaction, respondents were asked to indicate their overall level of dissatisfaction with the size of their penis

I'm so not answering that I think my dick is small under any circumstances

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I'd actually say that's a legitimately huge flaw with this study.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This + confounding factors + a garbage can regression + a not so random small sample -> their findings are rubbish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Which is the same issue with many physcology and political survey-based studies. Take a survey that was horribly implemented, run some lightweight analysis (cause what can you really do with 20 respondents anyways), slap a funny name on it, and boom another piece of terrible research.