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http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-livin...215700274.html

First off... Who ran this study? Part of it is summed up here
http://www.jpain.org/inpress

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...-symptoms.html *

Lets have some fun shall we?

Millions of women who have soldiered through natural childbirth while their male partners wilted beside the bed...

(cough cough anybody see the elephant in the room? The tone of the article has already been set. This line is aggressive too as it states "women have it harder")

may be shocked by a new study published in the Journal of Pain...


(Real "reputable" source with millions of convoluted and half studies)


According to the authors, who pored over the records of over 72,000 medical patients, "Women report more intense painthan men in virtually every disease category."

(where did they come up with that?)

The study's senior author, Atul Butte, MD, PhD, points out that there have been other reports on men versus women and pain, but their investigation is the first to indicate that women feel pain more intensely than men.

(The first?)


Butte's team looked at self-reported pain scores from 1 to 10 in over 160,000 cases across 250 diseases. "We saw higher pain scores for females practically across the board," said Butte.

(from reported pain? Hasn't anybody learned you can't be accurate from just word of mouth? If one wants to find out how the blender broke, one actually studies the blender)

Related: Men vs. Women: Who are Better Drivers?

(Nice Ad)

Studies of female ultra-endurance runners and long-distance swimmers have bolstered the idea that, contrary to old biases, women are tougher than men.

(What old biases? The "bias" had little to do with endurance but with the reaction many women give... You just said that "We saw higher pain scores for females practically across the board,")

A 2010 report commissioned by the insurance company Engage Mutual also found that men tend to exaggerate symptoms of sickness more than women, describing a common cold as "flu," for example, or a headache as a "migraine."

(Cant find the full study for #1 and #2 who says a flu is worse? Just because one is sick and doesn't experience half of the symptoms of a "cold" doesn't mean he still has a cold. Anybody that uses their brain knows that doctors and physicians often generalize and misdiagnose stuff.)

While the new study does appear to refute the idea that women are hardier when it comes to pain, the authors acknowledge some caveats. First, they assumed that patients had not taken medication before reporting their pain scores.

(Assumptions are a very accurate way of collecting data)

Second, it did not look at the patient's context, such as would a young man report less pain if his mother or a female nurse was in the room. And perhaps most importantly, as Butte puts it, "It's still not clear that women feel more pain than men do…but they are certainly reporting more pain."

(Ditto what I just said)

Ultimately, then, it looks like the jury is still out. Before we revert to calling women "the weaker sex," it appears more research needs to be done.

("Men need to stop being sexist"!)

Butte and his team plan to follow up by trying to find a biomarker, such as a blood test variable, which correlates to the actual experience of pain.

(Wow, they figured out their data is off)

Summed up... This article was written for the "average" woman. If the Harlem Globetrotters lost to the Washington Nationals imagine the uproar the audience would give (It happened once too). Same with this.

To add to this did nobody consider that men may report less because of the social stigma placed on them? This "study" is full of assumptions anyway...


I'm not like other people. I can't stand pain... It hurts me!
-Daffy Duck

*Little jem here "According to the women surveyed, almost half of men will exaggerate their symptoms."