My wife gets dismayed often at the previous generation we deal with in our faith, but I tell her to give it time. As it is said, we show up... we showed up during COVID, they didn't. We will inherit what they really don't believe in their heart.
Regarding Melissa Kearney's observation, one of the replies comes from Richard Reeves who said he looked into this stuff and porn use for his book and found "little strong evidence". Both authors in this case are examples of relying too much on data and studies and not enough on plain common sense.
I haven't read either book yet, just some reviews, but to at least defend Kearney a little bit, she's clearly trying to be data-driven. She's an MIT-trained economist by trade. If the data isn't there, then it's not there. It's easy to imagine that this is an area where good data is difficult to collect. Meanwhile, there are plenty of people out here exercising common sense on porn without regard to data. What value does it bring to the conversation if a female economist says, "Also, the boys are watching too much dang porn"?
I agree entirely with your comment. My comment was more to Reeves than Kearney anyway who seems to limit himself to data based observations, even when common sense is sufficient.
My wife gets dismayed often at the previous generation we deal with in our faith, but I tell her to give it time. As it is said, we show up... we showed up during COVID, they didn't. We will inherit what they really don't believe in their heart.
"NYU Langone Fertility Center."
More like "long-gone fertility center" amirite?
Regarding Melissa Kearney's observation, one of the replies comes from Richard Reeves who said he looked into this stuff and porn use for his book and found "little strong evidence". Both authors in this case are examples of relying too much on data and studies and not enough on plain common sense.
I haven't read either book yet, just some reviews, but to at least defend Kearney a little bit, she's clearly trying to be data-driven. She's an MIT-trained economist by trade. If the data isn't there, then it's not there. It's easy to imagine that this is an area where good data is difficult to collect. Meanwhile, there are plenty of people out here exercising common sense on porn without regard to data. What value does it bring to the conversation if a female economist says, "Also, the boys are watching too much dang porn"?
I agree entirely with your comment. My comment was more to Reeves than Kearney anyway who seems to limit himself to data based observations, even when common sense is sufficient.