Männliche Autoren haben höhere Rückzugsraten als weibliche Kollegen, wobei Muster von Disziplin und Land variieren, eine Studie mit über 20 Millionen Papieren ergab.
https://www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discovery/news/male-researchers-retract-more-papers-than-their-female-peers-403381
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Too many man **assume** that they are right… without any evidence to support this notion. Unfortunately, at the same time, too many women **afraid** that they may be wrong.
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Another week another „Women better than Men“ fluff article.
Wow CS/math Really bucking the trend.
I’m guessing, but it could be that men tend to publish more papers and we also see a bias in promotions. As people get pushed into higher positions, I think the pressure on them tends to increase. As pressure on people increases, the odds of dishonesty probably also increases. It’s also likely that the scrutiny has increased dramatically, and older researchers who could be majority men, can’t get away with what they used to get away with.
I would be curious about this in different societies with different ways of how they handle sexes/genders. My instant thought was that women have a higher self-standard and therefore spend more time on studies than males do prior to publishing. Or maybe women feel more negative emotions/responses to retractions where men may not put weight on it at all.
Kinda like how when women say they like video games, they are instantly tested and quizzed on their knowledge of video games— so this would be studying extra hard before walking into a GameStop and doing everything to avoid having to go back in, as opposed to guys who can just walk in with no burden of proof to bare.
Though these other comments do have some interesting variables I wouldn’t have thought of!
Doesn’t seem as if this is really saying anything useful. CS/math had the opposite trend. Perhaps I missed it, but it just seems to be a blanket retraction rate sorted only by gender and field.
1. Article is useless because it doesn’t give any measure of how much higher the rate is for men vs women. Could be a lot, could be a little. Article doesn’t say.
2. They didn’t control for the number of men vs women writing the papers.
> However, male researchers typically publish more papers than their female peers, ergo a higher number of retractions from male authors doesn’t necessarily point to a higher level of misconduct by men.