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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
Now this is also second hand as I was not present during this but the Family of Men stopped a university from publishing a paper. There was a questionnaire to the study and the questionnaire was different for each sex. The woman's questionnaire asked if the husband ever assaulted or beat her. The man's questionnaire was have you ever beaten you girl friend or wife? Not a sensible balanced question like "Have you been assaulted by your girl friend or wife?". I can't remember the rest of it but that stuck with me. There is so much more out there that is sickens me.
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That depends on what the publication was looking at. Was it looking at a difference between alleged and committed assaults on women? Or was it trying to use it to make a wide statement on society? Papers are extremely narrowly focused (my supervisor keeps rejecting mine on the basis that it's not specific enough...my title is entering 3 lines of text and it's still apparently generic in topic) and one looking at that sort of difference can constitute a publication on its own.
Alternatively, was it challenging a historical piece? Was it challenging an old set of data saying "our results say different"? There are a lot of ways to spin that information and not all of them are shoving on-male abuse under the rug.
The key thing to look at is the discussion and abstract sections...how is it using this information to back up a claim? What is it asserting with the data? A study between the difference of this and women-on-men violence via poll could easily be its own paper (and I've met professors who will do such a thing just to get more grant money...not all, but I've met some who would do it).
There's too little data for me to make a good judgement on whether it was good to request it to not be produced.