But the much more interesting issue here is the wildly and proudly illogical and anti-scientific response on social media.Exactly. Most of the posts don't even bother to criticize the methodology. They criticize the results.
If someone made the most perfect study ever done in the social sciences with the same result. They would still criticize it the same way.
If God came to Earth and said the same results as this paper (notice that we are dealing with omniscience)... they would still criticize God. And would probably try to cancel him for -ist "opinions" (since God has omniscience, God doesn't have opinions).
It seems like herd mentality thinking to conclude that the results are politically incorrect. Why not argue something like:
- the argument in favor of opposite gender mentorships highlights a benefit for ensuring equal representation at all levels of academia
- that one interpretation is that there is a bias against female mentors that gets passed on to their mentees