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[–] Sarcastaway 0 points (+0|-0)

To validate this list of topics, we asked a sample of 300 men on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform whether they ever had or ever would search for them online. ... Although these men were not a representative sample of American men, their responses suggest that these search terms are a valid way to capture fragile masculinity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/11/29/how-donald-trump-appeals-to-men-secretly-insecure-about-their-manhood/

In other words, this is a opinion piece (MJ), about a speculative article (WaPo), based on a biased sample (Google Trends), correlated with a another biased sample (Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform).

Furthermore, geographic voter demographics have not changed significantly in decades. So if this is a valid trend, it actually suggests that these insecurities have rapidly developed in the last few years. I think that is a far more interesting trend to be explored.

Junk article, interesting study.

[–] Kannibal [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

I think that is a far more interesting trend to be explored.

exactly, although some people will run with the correlation