Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Woozle effect
The nominator did have some points, although asking this to be deleted per MOS/ was seriously misguided. The actual points/concerns are that (1) while this topic does come up in a fair number of publication over the last three decades (2) most have only brief coverage of it, at the level of a sentence or two, e.g. http://books.google.com/books?id=BYSRXcCjP-UC&pg=PA687 http://books.google.com/books?id=74gyVSJhg5oC&pg=PA84. Scarcity of in-depth coverage (empirical studies of this effect) basically leaves this page at the level of  + mostly anecdotal evidence. There are a couple of "surveys" like the one from the Vera Institute of Justice, but these were not published to study the effect simply from a psychological perspective, but rather to argue it exists in a specific field of study/publications in order to advance their own agenda in that area: "This trend underscores the general neglect of methodology in research on human trafficking." (The VIS study is part of larger self-published report, submitted to the DOJ, although it was financially supported by a NIJ grant.) I think the article is going to have hard-to-solve  issues as a result of that. The 1953 "Modern psychologists: scientific woozle hunters? An opinion in outline." seems to have exactly one citation in Google Scholar (and that is a self-citation in the author's subsequent publication http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/rev/65/1/34/), so I wouldn't hold by breath as to its value to the field. And if you think Donald G. Dutton doesn't have an agenda, you should read a summary of his research findings http://www.ejfi.org/DV/dv-86.htm here, which starts with "Lesbian battering is more frequent than heterosexual battering." (That finding of his is often quoted on counter-feminist blogs.) Or listen for couple of minutes to him speaking http://vimeo.com/11113971 here: his main research seems to be overcoming/replacing the Duluth model
— User:Someone, 04:08, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
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