Women get emotional over sex, or something like that, maybe...

[athena25]

Apparently, the higher a woman's emotional intelligence, the better her sex life. Sort of. I read this at first with a smirk on my face, which then turned into a scowl. I'm now feeling strangely resigned to the gender-based assumptions and Bad Science reportage going on.

Let's start from the beginning shall we? First up, Emotional Intelligence. I've

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[littleonionz]

*titter* Gosh Miss Athena, you are such a one!

[raselhague]

Muhhh?

I have a book on Emotional Intelligence. I've never read it.

Now I'm a studentTM, it's on a sideways parallel to my teaching course somehow and I see it more as a sort of "if it's a subject that motivates or interests you, you want to learn more about it". In other words, I heart astronomy therefore I know stuff about it... and that's as far as my emotional intelligence goes.

What that has to do with sex I don't know. I suspect that I'm just going off on a wild tangent but what's new?

[ephrael]

May I suggest a further interpretation:
Scientists get to talk to unembarrassed women about sex and claim its work!
Not that its a bad thing.

[athena25]

Not only that - but they get to do it to twins! (fnar fnar...)

[mr_h_r_hughes]

P'shaw, it's all nonsense, surely men *and* women who can a) talk to their other halves about what they like and b)point/draw diagrams/demonstrate with glove puppets without turning into a blushing teenager are going to get a better time.

[renniek]

Reminds me of why scientists in the 'hard' sciences tend to be so suspicious of research methods in the 'soft' sciences (psychology, sociology etc etc)

[stsquad]

I'll have to stick up for some of the 'soft' science here having been involved in some psychology test work (for the family firm ;-). If your doing it right you have to take all sorts of cares about methodology to get good results.

Of course I'm entirely unqualified to comment on this particular piece of work. Maybe we could convince Mr Goldacre to have a look?

[mr_h_r_hughes]

Yeeeeesss. Veeeeery suspicious. Even more suspicious of 'hard' science that tries to use 'soft' science as part of it's studies...something the pharmacology industry is too fond of these days

[athena25]

Me, I'm not especially bothered about whether it's a "hard" or "soft" science (after all, I am an Eng Lit graduate and therefore have all the rigour of a spoonful of jam) it's more the way that the study has been reported and the "conclusions" that have been drawn from it.