It's a typical bullshit feminist ideology confirmation ceremony. Meaning: the "study" was intentionally built to ensure that it resulted in confirmation bias in accordance with their ideological bias.
The BBC report on the study provides more detail.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40814082
http://archive.is/5M0aG
Quote:
"Lead researcher Alyssa Bischmann and her team asked the men, the vast majority of whom were heterosexual and white, when they first saw porn and whether it was intentional, accidental or forced.
They were then asked 46 questions which measured how they conformed to one of two behavioural traits - seeking power over women or sexually promiscuous behaviour and living a playboy lifestyle."
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The study was built, by design, from the onset, before signing up volunteers to poll, to categorize all answers into one of only 2 possible outcomes.
Either 1, porn influences men to be dominant over women.
or 2, porn influences men to be sexually promiscuous.
The only 2 possible assessments to the answers to the questions asked: were both sexist/negative outcomes.
No middle ground, no neutral position, no non-sexist or non-negative possibilities. All answers are negative outcome, porn is enjoyed by men therefore porn must be bad and therefore all influences of porn must be bad. This is how feminists in the field of psychology use ideological bias to create false studies to enforce confirmation bias.
They literally design "studies" to have negative outcomes, from the beginning.
-This "study" had only 330 participants.
-This "study" only surveyed men, and did not survey women as a control group in order to study whether or not similar personality traits developed among women.
-This "study" did not have a group of gay men to use as a control group in order to study whether or not similar personality traits developed among gay men.
-This "study", by design, categorized absolutely all possible answers given into only two possible outcomes - both of which were negative outcomes.
-This "study" did not ask how often these men viewed porn such as to separate habitual porn watchers verse those who rarely view pornography.
-This "study" not ask what kind of porn these men viewed, such as to separate the men who **supposedly** think they should dominate women in spite of the fact that their favorite type of porn is femdom.
-This "study" did not ask what these men's earliest sexual EXPERIENCES were, in order to determine if viewing pornography had a bigger impact on sexuality than their earliest sexual experiences.
This "study" used a small sample size, with a pre-ordained set of only 2 possible outcomes, both of which were negative, and used neither women nor gay men as a control group to determine if the personality traits exposed by the questions given were unique to straight men or were in fact universal to those personality traits exhibited by women or gay men. Made no attempt to separate habitual from occasional porn viewers. Made no attempt to determine the type and or variety of the porn viewed. Made no attempt to determine if childhood sexual experiences played a bigger role on sexual development than the viewing of pornography.
This "study" like so many other feminist "studies", was nothing but an exercise in ideologically driven confirmation bias by means of deception and obfuscation. Intentionally assigning and classifying outcomes for the purpose of producing propaganda.
For more information on Feminist studies in general, and what to look for in separating the wheat from the chaff, meaning: how to determine a genuine study from an intentional product produced for the sake of being used as propaganda, go to the following youtube video on the topic.