Was Power-Posing Guru Amy Cuddy Shamed by Scientists Because She’s a Woman?
Psychologist are often tasked with the impossible, to study, hypothesis, research and prove that which is unseen. Intelligence, Motivation, Motives, Prejudice, Empty, Morals, and Power are but a few examples of topics Psychologist research. Intelligence test, which generally have a lot of statistical data, have been found to be biased. But the majority of states have required, historically, that an intelligence test be given in determinations of eligibility for students age 3-21 to receive Special Educational services within the local School Systems. Intelligence test continue to be used, after decades of revisions via new research. One of the problems found with intelligence testing was the actual language used within the test.
The language was problematic because even though the majority of the students in the U.S.A. speak English as people in the Americas speak a different English than that used in England so different regions of the USA speak different dialects.
Back to the topic at hand, have women especially Cuddy been made the poster child of “bad” research even though more men than women research has been found to be unrepeatable.
As Cuddy made the rounds in the media, collecting public accolades for her game-changing science, a fight was brewing in her field. By the end of 2011, a movement had emerged among psychologists to re-examine prior work. Statistics-minded critics pointed out that standard ways of setting up experiments and analyzing the results had some major flaws, and that the research literature seemed all but guaranteed to be infected with a rash of false-positive conclusions. Cuddy’s work, like that of many other scientists, would fail to replicate in larger studies.
