Angers me to no end when news sources do this. Pick a tiny minority and escalate it so that your da scrolls through Facebook and suddenly thinks everyone under the age of 30 wants to turn the world into a sexually ambiguous mess
The study was designed to generate a controversial result. Participants didn’t come up with the idea to make Santa gender neutral: it was offered to them. The question wasn’t: ‘What would you do to modernise Santa?’, or even ‘What gender should Santa be?’
The question fed participants gender neutral as an answer. That’s a kind of bias that real studies, conducted by companies that aren’t just trying to mine some outrage, would have worked on eliminating. And it’s a kind of bias that GraphicSpring had a vested interest in not eliminating. They wanted an attention-grabbing result that would piss off boomers already convinced of the evils of PC culture, and they got it.
In other words, the results of a viral survey designed by a company that specializes in making business cards and flyers probably was not intended to accurately measure public opinion.
Danger_Zoneee on December 18th, 2019 at 11:59 UTC »
Angers me to no end when news sources do this. Pick a tiny minority and escalate it so that your da scrolls through Facebook and suddenly thinks everyone under the age of 30 wants to turn the world into a sexually ambiguous mess
Yikyakyaktaktak on December 18th, 2019 at 13:09 UTC »
peOpLe arE sAyiNg!!1
Lupusvorax on December 18th, 2019 at 13:44 UTC »
Snopes summed it up best