Female PICS stars more happier than Regular women

Tbaby wrote: Four data collectors initially recruited participants at the university using the three criteria; students were given extra credit in a class for their participation. For those cases that remained unmatched, the same data collectors were provided access at a regional airport where they used a screening process to identify individuals who met the criteria and agreed to participate in the study. There was no incentive provided to respondents at the airport, although it was believed that the airport setting would provide an environment with access to a variety of women who had time available to complete a survey. So their matched sample pool were mostly college females from an obscure university in Pensylvania, and a few women who answered the survey at an airport.  Sorry that doesn't begin to represent all women by any means. If this study took into account the thousands of women of all ages, statuses, economic backgrounds and such and then compared their findings with 1000 responses from pic actresses, I'd be more impressed.

This is how most studies like this are done.

18 year old asian woman was matched with 18 year old asian woman.

Gkisses wrote: I still dont believe their sample was diverse or large enough for it to hold any weight towards my current opinion.

That's cool. But you can toss out pretty much all studies then. But maybe that's what some in here already do (unless it conveniently supports whatever issue they are standing on).

I think it's worth repeating that the researchers are not writing these articles and headlines. Journalist looking for stories are cherry picking things and posting these (not well written) articles. They are the ones writing 'happier'.

Seems many reeeeeally want to discredit the surveys for whatever reason. I don't really care either way. I just don't see why it's such a stretch for young sexually open people (and i'll pigeonhole PICS stars into that corner even though there are non-PICS stars who are sexually open) to have better body image, more energy and self esteem than similarly aged people who may have less time or incentive to focus on their bodies.




Edited by Random Thoughts - Nov 27 2012 at 2:08pm

Random Thoughts wrote: Gkisses wrote: I still dont believe their sample was diverse or large enough for it to hold any weight towards my current opinion.  That's cool. But you can toss out pretty much all studies then. But maybe that's what some in here already do (unless it conveniently supports whatever issue they are standing on). I think it's worth repeating that the researchers are not writing these articles and headlines. Journalist looking for stories are cherry picking things and posting these (not well written) articles. They are the ones writing 'happier'. Seems many reeeeeally want to discredit the surveys for whatever reason. I don't really care either way. I just don't see why it's such a stretch for young sexually open people (and i'll pigeonhole PICS stars into that corner even though there are non-PICS stars who are sexually open) to have better body image, more energy and self esteem than similarly aged people who may have less time or incentive to focus on their bodies.

On average I think women in general who are satisfied sexually and are sexually open tend to develop a higher self esteem,or body image. Its not hard to have a better view of ur body if u go into a industry where you know for sure the ppl ur producing material for will find u sexy and attractive. They are told this on a daily basis unlike ur average woman. They are admired and have somewhat a fan base  and celebrity around them which also helps the ego unlike ur average woman.

Very good points G Kisses.

I clicked on the link and the actual article from MSN is gone.  I wanted to see what the journalist spin was on this.