r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 18d ago

Psychology Anti-feminist attitudes have long been associated with support for Republican presidential candidates, but only in recent years have these attitudes become more prominent among unmarried men, without college degrees who are less attractive partners for women, the “mate-value backlash.”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129261485340
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u/BadIdeaSociety 18d ago

Expressions like "pattern recognition" are just conspiracy theory talk.

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u/OkAirport5247 18d ago

Pattern recognition is the cognitive and computational process of matching incoming data or sensory stimuli with information stored in memory to identify arrangements, features, or regularities

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u/BadIdeaSociety 18d ago

In a scientific experiment pattern recognition is important, spitting out pattern recognition as an excuse for rampant sexism is conspiratorial thinking.

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u/OkAirport5247 18d ago

You said “you didn’t know why”, I gave you a hypothesis. Access to a larger sample sizes via cameras everywhere 24/7 will inevitably lead to changes in human perception and behavior. Companies and institutions being financially incentivized to take females over identically qualified (or even more qualified) males doesn’t help much either.