mloxton1d ago

Dear #socialscience and #psychology people

Please explain to me what's going on here.

Some guys set up a challenge in which they ask (random convenience sampled) guys if they think they could beat a #woman #tennis champion. Of those that say they could, they pick a few and tennis is played. It goes about as you might think, with the woman beating them handily.

What I want to know, is what those volunteer guys were thinking. Did they honestly think they could beat her, or were they following a macho script in which everyone expects a guy to confidently lay claim to better skills at anything than any woman, or is there another motive?

https://youtu.be/wmrCfyUKBkc?is=kNQvvpb8boGDTgmB

Dude really thinks he can beat her
62.1%
He is following a script
34.5%
He just wants to meet her
3.4%
He just wants to play tennis
0%
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How Hard Can It Be To Beat A Female Tennis Pro? - How Hard Can It Be?

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Show threadRaven Luni
@mloxton Its both of the first 2 options. These people are acting according to an innate sense of male privilege - maybe thats something culturally imprinted, maybe not - but its something they never bothered to question.
Jun 24 at 2:16amWeb
Show threadmloxton13h ago

@RavenLuni
That was my take.

There are many of this sort of video around - chess, climbing, golf, tennis, etc.

They are a mixture of really interesting and very annoying to me because they raise such interesting questions, but because the makers are click-chasers and "content makers" rather than social scientists, they don't follow up with interviews to dig into WHY.

Show threadCoach Spore Diesel2h ago

@mloxton @RavenLuni

I think generally men assume that the bar is set so much lower for women that a mildly athletic or even average guy can clear it. It's an imaginative extrapolation of the difference between women and men athletes.