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  • Isn’t this backwards? Isn’t it on the onus of the psychologists out there to prove that word completion tasks are good measurements for aggression?

    Word fragment completion tasks have been used for decades, what makes you think no one made sure it’s an effective way to measure things like aggression? Quick google search for example https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053482212001039

    Statistically / politically speaking, the traditional measurements are like, “Gun Murders per Capita”. You know, actual people killing each other, serving as the basis of an argument or indicators of aggression.

    That’s not what the study is about though. It’s about the relation between aggression and masculinity, how do you measure this with a murder per capita number? You also cannot play with someone’s masculinity and give them a gun, and see what happens.

    Science is not perfect, especially in a field like psychology. You can’t read people’s mind. So we find alternate ways to measure things. Doesn’t mean it’s BS pseudo/fake science. It’s just science.