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Study of men who embodied a young woman in VR finds they felt disgust & anger when catcalled
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this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
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Why don't you trust their metrics? If you don't think the tests were accurate measurements, what would work better?
They used neurolinguistics and neural pathway mapping, there's a whole section on it.
Testing one thing by no means implies any other method wouldn't have proven the same thing. That's... that's not how studies work. They're testing the efficacy of their methods.
That's the hypothesis, not a thesis.
I think that if you say
then you need your metrics to control for, among other things, "individuals who have engaged in harassment"
But they're not just testing efficacy either. They're making a qualitative statement that VR has certain special characteristics when it comes to aiding empathy. That's a claim that absolutely need to be contrasted against other media, and it's absolutely "how studies work".