An /r/mensrights mod notices a lot of Red Pill content being posted on the sub. Alphas come out of the woodwork to defend themselves.

and the only reason that people bend over backwards to cast doubt on studies like those in question

Sigh. I am not any one of the hundreds of researchers that cast doubt on the viability of self-reporting as a credible source of data. There are mountains of stuff that cast ask this question. And not just in sexual psychology, but in a lot of other fields. Like studies on game theory or advertising/marketing of embarrassing products. It has nothing inherently to do with supporting the red pill.

I'm just informing a layman how they're interpreting research data without any regard to whether or not this is how its meant to be used. You could write a popsci piece about this, and you would get a lot more interesting but wrong stuff than just supporting/rejecting the redpill. For example, forming conclusions on the sexual habits of minors and seniors are a famous example of where sex surveys have been very misleading just a few decades ago(can provide links).

I have a job where I read all sorts of research literally for fun. I'm sorry for interrupting your circlejerk, but I'm not going out of my way for anything.

As for data to the contrary, I already posted some. Both the fake polygraph studies returned positions directly contradicting OP. Here:

What she found was that both men and women appeared to lie about their sexual history, but in different ways.

When students were asked to fill out an anonymous paper survey, male students reported having sex at an earlier age and with more people than the female students.

However, when students were hooked up to a fake polygraph machine, the female students, on average, were more likely to report that they had more partners than the male students.

"It was the exact opposite," Fisher said of the fake lie detector answers. "Women are reporting significantly more partners than the men."

When not attached to the fake lie detector, the male students tended to add one more partner to their sexual history, while the women tended to subtract one.

Fisher, who specializes in the study of sexuality and gender roles, said that the men and women were less likely to alter their answers regarding other gender-related behaviors, such as cooking, petting a kitten, changing a car tire, dressing like the other sex or driving at 90 mph.

In other words, men and women appeared to be less hesitant to admit to activities that might be associated with the opposite sex, as long as they didn't involve sexual behavior. When it came to intercourse, men and women appeared to be intent on answering along stereotypical expectations, Fisher said.

Fisher said the findings should raise flags with researchers who use surveys to study sexuality. "It is possible that people are more motivated to hide sexual behavior that is not in keeping with gender norms than other types of behavior," Fisher wrote.

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It was unclear why, 10 years later, women were now reporting that they had a greater number of partners than men.

"With research like this, it's always difficult to separate out whether the change is in actual behavior or whether the change is in willingness to admit the behavior," Fisher said.

Lastly, you'll find that the RP, for how much its hated is subject to the exact same treatment. "Bending over backward" to disprove science that supports its positions.

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