Part of the issue there is that particular masculinities are deeply sketchy independent variables . It ' s only a fairly hardline and orthodox psychology that views traits as actual observables as opposed to operationalizations of trends in behavior across a specified range of settings , and even with that assumption , it isn ' t clear that there are traits you can isolate with sufficient rigor and reliability to be sure that you ' re testing their effects . So in other words , given the fairly abstract nature of the phenomenon , correlations might be the best we can hope for . <| sep |> Read my post . I know Hillary can easily be pardoned in advance , but it would be much easier politically for Obama to do so with some kind of threat from Trump . The media would want a good two weeks of constant Hillary is going to be persecuted headlines to prevent Obama from totally destroying his legacy by pardoning someone for overt corruption .