Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 percent of people

Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by nabnob on Thursday February 07, 2019 @10:23AM (#19105715)

Do you have any studies tracking the sex of study participants in psychology? I know that in clinical trials, historically the majority of participants are male:

"After the tragedies caused by the use of thalidomide in pregnant women, the FDA issued “General Considerations for the Clinical Evaluation of Drugs” in 1977. This guidance document stated that women of child-bearing potential should be excluded from Phase 1 and early Phase 2 research, except if these studies were being conducted to test a drug for a life-threatening illness. If a drug appeared to have a favorable risk-benefit assessment, women could then be included in later Phase 2 and Phase 3 trials if animal teratogenicity and fertility studies were finished...In 1993, FDA reversed the 1977 guidance with another guidance document entitled Guidelines for the Study and Evaluation of Gender Differences in the Clinical Evaluation of Drugs."

Also:

"In a study that evaluated the inclusion and analysis of sex in the results of federally-funded randomized clinical trials in nine major medical journals in 2009, researchers found most studies that were not sex-specific had an average enrollment of 37% women."

From "Women’s involvement in clinical trials: historical perspective and future implications" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4800017/

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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by dleslie on Thursday February 07, 2019 @11:20AM (#19106167)

Don't clinical trials often pay?

They could be attractive to the desperately impoverished single adults, who are mostly men.

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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by nabnob on Thursday February 07, 2019 @11:32AM (#19106252)

Source? Everything I've read says that women are more likely to live in poverty.

Stats on poverty by sex and age in the United States: https://www.statista.com/statistics/233154/us-poverty-rate-b...

Worldwide, the gap is even wider: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/14...

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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by dleslie on Thursday February 07, 2019 @01:04PM (#19106988)

There's a weird disconnect between poverty in terms of income and poverty in terms of access to basic needs. For instance, American Men are much more likely to be homeless than American Women[0]. There's all sorts of interesting gender/race/age disparities related to homelessness[1]. The effect of income appears to be outweighed by the effects of gender, race and age.

I should have been clearer than simply stating _desperately_ poor; I intended to convey that they are in a state of poverty where there are few other options available.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2018/12/29/homeless...

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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by ajscanlan on Thursday February 07, 2019 @11:56AM (#19106452)

I'm surprised by that considering men are more likely to be homeless.

I wonder why that is, I would've thought poverty and homelessness goes hand in hand.

Maybe it's more to do with mental health? Of all the homeless people I knew, a sizeable portion of them suffered from serious mental illnesses.

I don't know, I just found it interesting.

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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by setr on Friday February 08, 2019 @06:22PM (#19119603)

Someone once argued to me that homeless women are much more likely to get assistance, in the form of organizations or from begging, than homeless men. Never verified but seems intuitively true

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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by teunispeters on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:05PM (#19173708)

having been homeless and been around homeless groups before - being homeless is very unsafe (deadly) for women, so many will pick the path of slavery instead. (or abusive partners, whatever. It's not really like there's a difference) after all, both involve being used as an object and thrown away, but with the latter one's likely to at least get food first and probably drugs to help survive.

It's a really horrible place to be.

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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by raducu on Sunday February 10, 2019 @02:45PM (#19129575)

It's to do with the fact that society objectifies men as objects of success while women are objectified as sexual objects for having a vagina and womb; hence a woman cannot go any lower in value than her womb and vagina while an unsuccessful man can just go the botomless pit as far as society is concerned.

Men are the disposable sex.

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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by thatoneuser on Thursday February 07, 2019 @08:14PM (#19110430)

Considering homeless population is like 80-90% men I think it's fair to say poverty is not the whole story. Men have some expenses women don't and women by far can receive more social benefits than men (some welfare programs are exclusive to women).

And the world stats aren't relevant as we're talking about psych studies that mostly take place in the US.

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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by maceurt on Friday February 08, 2019 @06:58AM (#19113409)

Does that poverty rate take into account that a lot of females are given money and financial support by a partner?

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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by nerfhammer on Thursday February 07, 2019 @01:15PM (#19107070)

clinical trials are for medical experiments.

social psychology experiments use whoever they can get, often for class credit only

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