“A university student is 4,000 times more likely to be recruited for psychology research than any other person.”* Great instructional material from Greg Downey on sample bias in psychology research. Highly recommended! ---- 2:10 – A 2010 article shows that the overwhelming majority of the subjects of psychology research are the WEIRDest people in the world.† Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic 2:58 – When good cross-cultural data are available for comparison, it becomes clear that WEIRD subjects are not representative of the world at large. For example (3:54), WEIRD subjects are susceptible to the Müller-Lyer illusion, wherea San foragers and South African miners tend to notice straightaway that the lines involved are of the same length. * dx.doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.63.7.60 † dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X0999152X
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 14:19:24 +0000
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