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USC Researchers Attack San Diego State’s ‘Flawed’ Study of Women Screen Protagonists

Call it a Battle of the Think Tanks, or maybe Stat Wars: USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Center took to social media Tuesday to disparage a new report from San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, documenting a 28% drop in female film protagonists in top-grossing films in 2020. In series of critical tweets, the Annenberg Inclusion Center, founded by Stacy Smith, questioned the data, as well as calling out news outlets for publishing what Annenberg calls “flawed” results of the San Diego State study: The 100th film of 2020 made less than $1 million. Most years, the 100th film made roughly $22 million. @SDSU study is not relevant to trends over time. Do better journalists @variety @deadline @thewrap. Interrogate the study. Report flaws. #basicstats — Annenberg Inclusion Initiative (@Inclusionists) April 13, 2021 Other Tuesday tweets from Annenberg kept up the attack on SDSU, as well as needling the press, arguing that any results based on movies released in 2020 are bound to be skewed due to the pandemic and journalists should know better than to report the information. “Just because a study appears in the press doesn’t mean it is valid,” one Annenberg tweet...

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