#<- yea yea sampling bias

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Is dropout worth it and can you even subscribe outside the Americas because damn those youtube short ads might be the first and only time promotions via shorts will ever work on me

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mcnd & cix! :)

oh excellent yes thank u meg mwah !!

mcnd ( if I stan ):

favourite member/bias line: bic / seungmin my absolute ray of sunshine...... he's just the cutest and so energetic I can't help but smile at him my god he always finds a way to keep the bright energy up and I love him for it <333 also minjae like. they go hand in hand so it makes sense minjae snuck into my bias line. their dynamic is so sweet I enjoy minjaes vocals vs bics raps too. I'm so ultimately ot5 tho it's really hard to choose a bias in mcnd actually. my special boys who have a large place in my heart (along with txt)

member I'd fight and why: who WOULDNT I fight ...... no I think it would be win ( why do I keep wanting to right the maknaes ) but win is a lil shit esp in games he needs to 🤼 actually I could say this about minjae too. both of them.

favourite song(s): god I always change my mind depending on my mood BUT top gang. my one and only. <3 also earth age intro, h.b.c, beautiful, galaxy, player ..... yea

favourite thing about the group: bc they're so low-key and not widely popular they're so chill & close knit & bounce off each other. like when they do unit performances or play games together it's just easy watching. also they don't release overwhelming amounts of content so it's really fun to stan them and feel at ease <3 I love their music style it's excellent.

something I'd like to see from them: a studio choom performance like pls universe give me one.

cix ( if I stan ):

favourite member/bias line: seunghun my absolute gem. besides being drawn to a fellow pisces he's so funny and energetic. immediately was drawn to his personality he's so likeable & talented. he's the mum of the group I love him dearly.

member I'd like to fight and why: it's gotta be bx.... the stuff he comes out with and how chaotic he can be. I gotta take him down. he needs to be stopped (love him)

favourite song(s): I looove rebel and imagine but also cinema and stairway to heaven and everything really. not a bad song in their discography. <3333 depending on the day I go through phases of which song I'm hooked on ajdsks

favourite thing about the group: similar reason as mcnd really. little family. and also how versatile they are and their songs never miss they're SOOOOO damn good. they are fun to watch, they really make me smile.

something I'd like to see from them: I'd like more songs like cinema because it gave me strong 80s vibes. I still think there's a song it reminds me of / samples but I still haven't been able to pinpoint it sob

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I was pretty skeptical about the figures, since they contradict what I usually hear on the media, so I did a little research. Here’s what I found:  (Sorry this is so US centric)  (I’ll also try to stay close to primary sources as possible)

(http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6308a1.htm?s_cid=ss6308a1_e)

- the 12 months before taking the survey, an estimated 4.0% of women experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner -an estimated 14.2% of women experienced some form of psychological aggression in the 12 months preceding the survey. -*4,774,000 women have been victims of physical violence by intimate partner in the 12 months preceding the survey -*17,091,000 women have been victims of psychological aggression by intimate partner in the 12 months preceding the survey

- the 12 months before taking the survey, an estimated 4.8% of men experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner -an estimated 18.0% of men experienced some form of psychological aggression in the 12 months preceding the survey. -*5,452,000 men have been victims of physical violence by intimate partner in the 12 months preceding the survey -*20,471,000 men have been victims of psychological aggression by intimate partner in the 12 months preceding the survey

*Table 6

By the data presented by the Center for Disease Control, out of the estimate of 10,226,000 yearly victims of intimate partner violence, 53.3% of victims where male and 46.6% were female. As for psychological aggression, out of the estimate of 37,562,000 yearly victims, 54.4% were male and 45.5% were female. These statistics would support the claim made in the bottom left.

Now I couldn’t find a primary source for the 70% of DV is initiated by women, but here’s the facts that I found, which may have been interpreted by the people who made this poster:

(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-sacks/researcher-says-womens-in_b_222746.html) -Women who were in a battered women’s shelter, 67% of the women reported severe violence toward their partner in the past year.

This can be interpreted as “67% of violent couples with IPV is mutual”. But then again, primary sources and full data would be helpful to back up this claim.

But the one that is most interesting is:(http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsArticle.aspx?articleid=111137)(Another report analysis from the CDC)

-23.9% of relationships are violent -50.3% of IPV is non-reciprocal and 49.7% is reciprocal (Reciprocal IPV= Mutual violence) -70.7% of non-reciprocal IPV is initiated by women. 

So summing up the numbers, it’s not that 70% of all DV is initiated by women, its that 70% of non-reciprocal DV is initiated by women. To go further would say that 49.7% of DV is mutual, 36.2% of DV is initiated by women, and 14.5% of DV is initiated by men

Male victims of domestic violence are real. They are hurting. And they often don’t get the attention and compassion they so urgently deserve and need.

Have a heart. Open your mind, and give a care.

Hm. These numbers are all so different to anything I’ve seen before. I’m reblogging and liking this both for my own reference and to spread these numbers to others. I’m definitely gonna look into this and see if I can find more sources and more information.

Mother fuckers can we all just say let’s not be dicks to our fucking love ones already?

Tagging this for my speech project that I need the sources for

Here are 221 studies on IPV / DV for y’all.

You are a life saver.

That list is good, but outdated.  I e-mailed the researcher who compiled that list a couple weeks ago and he gave me three different documents.  I uploaded them to this dropbox folder. You can go there and download them.

The list of studies is now up to 343 scholarly investigations (270 empirical studies and 73 reviews). Not only did he send me that list, but he also sent me two meta-studies (also in the dropbox folder).  One is on male/female perpetration rates and the other is on male/female victimization rates. 

There is also “Rates of Bi-directional versus Uni-directional Intimate Partner Violence Across Samples, Sexual Orientations, and Race/Ethnicities: A Comprehensive Review“.  It’s a mouthful to be sure. Basically this study took the data from 48 other empirical studies, collated the data, placed it online for public viewing, submitted it for peer review, and was found to be accurate. 

It’s findings basically wind down to this:

84% of relationships are non-violent

58% of relationships that are violent, both partners abuse the other.

28% of violent relationships only the woman is violent

14% of violent relationships only the man is violent.

This is featured Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project website and is part of a much larger DV research project.  You can read the summarized findings here or take a gander at the full 61-page review.  This is a compilation of the research of Erin Pizzey, Murray Strauss, Don Dutton, and many others who are challenging the feminist model of patriarchal dominance. They also have some videos that are very informative as well.

Murray Strauss also compiled: Thirty Years of Denying the Evidence on Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence: Implications for Prevention and Treatment.  A report detailing the existence of over 200 studies showing gender symmetry in victimization rates. Studies that show symmetry going as far back as 1975.  He also examines the methods feminist researchers have used to suppress the evidence from public discourse, hence the title “Thirty Years of Denying the Evidence”.

Two other excellent and brief videos on the topic come from the MenAreGood YouTube channel:

Male Victims of Domestic Violence - The Hidden Story

Bias Against Men and Boys in Mental Health Research

I really need to write up a solo reference post for domestic violence data…

so what do we have here? what i’ve been saying forever. women as initiators of domestic violence is one of the biggest, closely guarded secret around. we literally had female FEMINIST researchers hiding evidence. FEMINISTS!! but i’m the bad guy for stating that feminism is filled with man hatred. what would you say of men of who information about abuse women and thus allowed the abuse to continue? YOU FUCKING KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU’D SAY!! am i surprised by the research? no fucking way. we don’t teach women in society to not hit men. we only teach men to not hit women. for little boys on up we are shamed if we even defend ourselves if little girls hit us BUT NOT ONE TIME HAVE I EVER HEARD OR SEEN ANY PARENT TEACHING THEIR LITTLE OR DAUGHTER THAT THEY SHOULD NOT HIT MEN!! we always make excuses for it. “she was emotional” “he said…” “he did…” “he had it coming…” and more. this research is fantastic but let’s be honest, this post isn’t going to get many reblogs at all because most of y'all are married to the idea that women are angels and men are devils. women have no agency and are always victims of men. that only men hit and women never hit. only men can be abusers and women can never be abusers. no amount of research is going to change your minds. men have done some evil shit but i so sick and tired of this narrative that women are just innocent, perfect deities. IF SHE HITS YOU ONCE, LEAVE HER ASS QUICK!!! IF SHE DID IT ONCE, SHE’LL FUCKING DO IT AGAIN!! GUARANTEED. and one more thing, FUCK FEMINISM. hiding empirical data but standing on your high horse preaching gender equality?! fuck feminism. so fucking glad i ceased to be a fucking feminist years ago. eye wide fucking open now.

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Thank you @alwaysbewoke !!! And did you know that there are feminists on here sending hate mail just because you don’t agree with them? It’s fucking sad, but I’m so happy that you said this. It lets me know that I’m not the only one realizing the shady bullshit that they preach but never practice themselves.

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i’ve only known one feminist who was on the right side of this issue and she was so because she works in the domestic violence field as a counselor. she told me she sees it all the time. men get hit, have things thrown at them, women come at them with knives, scratches on their faces and everything and yet we never talk about it. never. the only people who we pounce on for dv are men. we never ever talk about women. never ever. and if you do, you get shouted down. fuck all that.

this is why many men when they hear “feminism” they think “ok that means i get to hit back now.” because we’re tired of the bullshit. we’re tired of women getting away with hitting because society AND FEMINISM tells them it’s fine. it’s okay. they’re allowed. feminism PROTECTS FEMALE ABUSERS ALL DAY!! my goodness. to hide evidence as a researcher is akin to a crime. the ripple affect of that shit is fucking insane. however let them tell it, it’s a problem with men that we think feminism has a man hatred problem. yea the problem is with us because feminism is perfect. feminism ain’t never do no shit, no wrong ever. srsly fuck feminism. fuck it to the depths of hell.

this is why i tell people, dealing with only ONE half of a problem will only allow the problem to continue to exist. it doesn’t change shit. if anything it makes things worse.

racist, sexist feminism. fuck off. i spit on feminism every fucking chance i get. first they fuck over black women (and black men) and then they fuck over men with this type of bullshit. i refuse to align myself with that fuckery. i can help black women much better without it. i don’t need to be a part of something that hates me both as a man and as a black person to help sistas get equal pay and shit. fuckouttahere.

that’s why i call out all these people still posting pics and riding for solange knowles. imagine if i was posting pics and niceties for ray rice. but when women do some violent bullshit, we stay given them a pass smfh. 

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Confessions are often used as an End All Be All of an investigation, but anyone can be pressured in the right circumstances to not only say that they did something (often because they think if they tell the cops what they want to hear then they can get out of there) but some people will actually develop false memories and become convinced that they did it, even if it is later proven that they didnt

Polygraphs only work so far as to show that the person believes they are lying or they are telling the truth, a dude failed one once cause the question was "did you have anything to do with her disappearance" and because he had canceled plans or something and she went missing/died cause she was alone he personally felt responsible, like he could have saved her, but he obviously said no cause he didnt actually do anything but it showed him as "lying" cause the world cannot be broken down into yes/no questions. Polygraphs also depend heavily on what the examiner considers pass/fail, if they have a reason to think that someone is lying or if they personally want to see a conviction then they can say anything about what the results say cause people without training arent going to be able to tell the difference

DNA isolation is so easy to mess up (i do it at work all the time, and it's easily dont at least once a week by someone who was rushing and didnt notice a contamination or something) and then the sample needs redone, but if you get the answer you are looking for, why bother retesting? Also, we are only looking for a single spike, actually sequencing gets that much harder cause if there is multiple sources of dna in a sample? Oh that's going to give a fucked up result, if it's old or trace? Weird results, degradation is going to make it wonky and then people start trying to fill in blanks. Dont get me wrong, sometimes it's great! But there is a great episode of the Science vs. Podcast that is about DNA and the things that can go wrong

Also, the cops are allowed to lie to you, and if they think they can get away with it they will lie to everyone, including in court. Dont talk to police without a lawyer present and if you do make sure there is a tape rolling. The West Memphis Three case was full of this including police chatting with the soon to be defendants a few days before interrogating them and telling them details about what had happened to the kids (and I mean, the gossip mill in that town knew most of what was supposed to be kept secret anyways) and when they brought them in for questioning and the boys said things that "ONLY THE KILLERS WOULD KNOW" and the boys went "well yall told us this back at my trailer when we were shooting shit last week" the cops went "hmm nope, dont remember that." When the first of the 3 boys was brought in for questioning, he was a minor who was drilled for hours (somewhere in the double digits) without a lawyer present and they didnt start rolling the tape until the very end when they had already coached him into what the story was (and even in the taped part of the confession he will say something that cant have happened based on evidence and the police correct him and he says "oh yea, guess it was at 5pm not 7am") A 19 year old went to death row over this (last podcast on the left has a good 3 episode series about this and it makes me want to scream every time)

The question of fingerprints gets really fuzzy when you have been told your entire life that everyone has a distinct fingerprint and they are all different. Well when they go through and look at them, it's just a person looking at them and determining if they are the same or not. Fingerprints are hard to get onto a surface perfectly even when you are fingerprinting someone on purpose, and they are trying to eyeball these puzzle pieces, and this is, again, where human bias comes in. They did a study where they took different fingerprint experts and gave them prints and told them they were suspects in a bombing (and I think alluded to them being a POC, I dont remember that part well), most of them positively ID'd them as matches and it was definitely that guy. They were not happy to find out that the prints were taken from previous cases that they themselves had done and had declared were not matches. Again there is an episode of Science Vs. That is about fingerprints.

Dont put blind faith into things run by humans, whether its DNA, the system, "lie detector tests", etc.

Dont swallow the narrative that the good cops are those who blast forwards in a case without evidence because of a gut feeling and then being magically correct the whole time. I love NCIS, doesnt mean I'm going to trust a cop not to put me away for something I didnt do if they just truly believe I did it or if it would make it easier for them to get someone caught already.

The State Should Have No Right to Kill ANYONE.

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