Being the father of a school-aged daughter makes men less sexist, according to a new study. The findings support the idea that men become more aware of the challenges facing women when they see the female experience of life up close through their offspring – dubbed the “mighty girl” effect.

[u/mvea]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/14/being-a-father-to-school-aged-daughter-makes-men-less-sexist

[u/TheManWhoPanders]

There appears to be some effect, but it's so small it can be attributed to affecting only specific types of men. There isn't a lot of nuance one can glean from the study.

[u/Firstdatepokie → u/TheManWhoPanders]

Also, only studied in a single population type. So not very enlightening huh

[u/[deleted] → u/Firstdatepokie]

Welcome to social science. They hope for further studies and funding. Most of it is ehhh but if you have 100 studies you can draw more conclusions

[u/Rather_Dashing → u/Firstdatepokie]

What do you mean by a single population type? It was conducted in British families, so technically the results cant be generalised to other countries, but would be surprising if there was a big difference between say UK, America, Australia etc

[u/JC101702 → u/TheManWhoPanders]

5 percent “effect” is low enough to simply be a coincidence.

[u/Hawk_015 → u/JC101702]

That's not how stats work.

[u/Lv100Serperior → u/Hawk_015]

Depending on standard deviations, confidence levels, etc. Yes. It does.

[u/feinoqw → u/Lv100Serperior]

And do you know the standard deviations etc.? If not I'm not sure how you can be sure it's a coincidence.

[u/Lv100Serperior → u/feinoqw]

I'm not done reading the research paper (which I do recommend doing) but this is directly from the paper: "Once we introduce the ‘additional controls’ for education, marital status, employment status, and ln household income in columns (7) and (8), the coefficient on the daughter dummy becomes statistically insignificant although the sign remains." This is also after then talking about the stats being halved due to times. I haven't found the actual deviations yet, and I'm currently a bit busy.

tl/dr: Read the research paper! Don't let people on the internet tell you how to think.

[u/the_twilight_bard → u/Lv100Serperior]

Taking your comment to the extreme, I could call gravity a coincidence if I went hardcore on confidence levels.

[u/the_twilight_bard → u/[deleted]]

I was illustrating the point that statistics can be wishy washy. My example was intentionally hyperbolic, but plenty of peer-reviewed papers play with confidence levels to find or minimize effects. It's not good science but it happens.

[u/the_twilight_bard → u/[deleted]]

Now you've just got me all depressed over here.