{"id":27770,"date":"2015-08-01T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27770"},"modified":"2015-07-24T06:54:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T10:54:23","slug":"qotd-how-to-write-a-headline-about-a-scientific-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/08\/01\/qotd-how-to-write-a-headline-about-a-scientific-result\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: How to write a headline about a “scientific” result"},"content":{"rendered":"

… let’s not forget the Heads We Win Tails You Lose rule of the in-group affirmations which we loosely call “social sciences.”<\/p>\n

Suppose you run a test to distinguish whether women, or men, are more willing to hire family — that is, engage in nepotism — when filling a job.<\/p>\n

If it turns out that men are more likely to engage in nepotistic practices, the study will be titled:<\/p>\n

Women More Ethical in Business Dealings Than Men<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On the other hand, if it turns out that women<\/em> are more likely to approve of nepotism, whereas men are less<\/em> likely, the study will have the title:<\/p>\n

Women More Caring Towards Family Members; Men Care Only About Filthy Careerism & the Welfare of Total Strangers Who Might Be Rapists<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ace, “Shock: Social Scientists Determine Conservatives Are Stupid”, Ace of Spades HQ<\/em><\/a>, 2014-09-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… let’s not forget the Heads We Win Tails You Lose rule of the in-group affirmations which we loosely call “social sciences.” Suppose you run a test to distinguish whether women, or men, are more willing to hire family — that is, engage in nepotism — when filling a job. If it turns out that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28,41],"tags":[58,39,477,213],"class_list":["post-27770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","tag-internet","tag-junkscience","tag-magazines","tag-newspapers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7dU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27772,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27770\/revisions\/27772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}