• Nougat@kbin.social
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    The headline and the statement in the article are two different things.

    This finding suggests that women with higher levels of subclinical psychopathy, characterized by impulsivity and remorselessness, were slightly more inclined to support Trump, irrespective of the specific electoral matchup.

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    We already knew that one has to be crazy to vote for him. This just confirms it.

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    Wow, way to like, headline with the exact opposite of what the content of the article actually says. Anything for a misogynist jab eh?

    The article actually says:

    “Overall, the current manuscript offers no substantive support to the first study of Navarrete et al. (2010). We were unable to replicate their key finding… Rather, our results suggest that women’s perception of the candidates’ intelligence, and their own personalities, have some relationship to their stated voting preferences,” the researchers concluded. “Although the comparability of our findings must be considered in light of the impossibility of a direct replication of the original, we contend that hormonal changes across the menstrual cycle are unlikely to tip the scale for female voters.”

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      Did you read the entire article? Because it also explicitly states:

      However, the research did uncover a weak relationship between psychopathic personality traits and support for Donald Trump. […] When examining Dark Triad personality traits, Engelbrecht and her colleagues found that psychopathy showed a significant, albeit weak, relationship with a preference for Trump in the matchups where he was featured. This finding suggests that women with higher levels of subclinical psychopathy, characterized by impulsivity and remorselessness, were slightly more inclined to support Trump, irrespective of the specific electoral matchup.

      Which is exactly what the headline says.