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Mercy comments on I've had it with those dark rumours about our culture rigorously suppressing opinions - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: Multiheaded 25 January 2012 05:43PM

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Comment author: Mercy 31 January 2012 06:08:43PM 15 points [-]

Hang on a minute. This a prime hypothesis testing space! If you really think that anti-rape messaging makes post-rape experience worse, it surely follows that it must be worse for women than for men, this messaging being mostly aimed at women. So you can quite conveniently check your theory by comparing the incidence of ptsd, depression, etc in male and female rape survivors.

No need to keep this as a controversial suspicion or instinct, you'd be armed with real knowledge! Knowledge you can report back to us, and anyone else you may have discussed this issue with. Indeed I think you could cultivate a useful reputation for open mindedness and rationality if you went back to any place you'd seen this attitude expressed before, and shared your findings -positive or negative- with them.

Comment author: Alicorn 31 January 2012 07:15:31PM 12 points [-]

There are a lot of confounding factors hereabouts.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 12 February 2012 01:07:06PM 11 points [-]

Yea, and doing a proper double blind test would pretty much be the least likely thing ever to pass any ethics committee.

Comment author: [deleted] 31 January 2012 08:54:13PM 8 points [-]

Hang on a minute. This a prime hypothesis testing space! If you really think that anti-rape messaging makes post-rape experience worse, it surely follows that it must be worse for women than for men, this messaging being mostly aimed at women. So you can quite conveniently check your theory by comparing the incidence of ptsd, depression, etc in male and female rape survivors.

Not necessarily. If male rape is not acknowledged at all, it can be much harder to talk about it and heal.

Comment author: Baughn 03 February 2012 01:04:25PM 8 points [-]

Well, yes, that"s the point. To figure out whether this comes out positive or negative.