5/21/2023 0 Comments Crazy hot matrixIt is quite unexpected to see a journal specializing in the Causes Of Individual Differences publishing a paper driven by a sexist YouTube video that rates women for hotness and craziness, and judges men by their cuteness and the amount of money they make. It features several references to its founder, including a reprint of his original introductory editorial. The HCM paper was published in Issue 169 of the PAID journal, which celebrates its 40th anniversary. The journal has been accused of being too protective of its founder. PAID apparently did not want to retract these papers despite requests by academic institutions and only slapped EoCs on them. His work is currently up to 15 retractions and 70+ expressions-of-concern (EoC), including several papers he published in his own PAID journal. His career has been very controversial, and since his death many of his papers have been investigated for data falsification and fabrication. The PAID journal was founded by Hans Eysenck, a German/British psychologist, who is one of the highest cited scientists in his field. The Personality and Individual Differences journal in which the HCM paper was published focuses on “the Structure and Development of Personality, and the Causation of Individual Differences.” The PAID journal – not without controversies I can see that this video is meant to be funny, and I am sure there is a place in the Interwebs for it, but in my personal view it’s far too simplistic and sexist to be featured in a scientific paper. Women are advised to date only the rich guys. The video also features a Cute-Money Matrix (CMM) in which men are rated according to how cute they are and how much money they make. The matrix is then divided into subsections of women that guys should avoid, called the No Go Zone (“ we do not hang around and date and marry women who are not at least a 5 hot“), the Date Zone, and the Wife Zone ( at least an 8 hot but not too crazy). ![]() The Crazy scale starts at 4, the guy explains, “ because of course there is no such thing as a woman who is not at least a 4 crazy“. The Hot-Crazy Matrix (HCM) comes from a popular YouTube video (close to 3 million views not going to link to it but easy to find) in which a man draws a plot on a whiteboard that scores women according to two scales, “Hot” and “Crazy”. The paper was initially called Testing the hot-crazy matrix: Borderline personality traits in attractive women and wealthy low attractive men are relatively favoured by the opposite sex, but the first part of the title has now been removed. The paper builds upon a popular - but not scientific - YouTube video in which men are advised to only date women who are “hot and not too crazy”, and women are believed to only want to marry rich guys.įigures 1 and 2 of the paper - taken from this video but without giving credit - are presented in this paper as scientific data. Lots of buzz yesterday on Twitter about a paper already published online a year ago, but assigned to the February 2021 issue of Personality and Individual Differences, an Elsevier/Science Direct journal.
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