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Heather McQuaid

Experimental psychology: The roar of the crowd | The Economist - 0 views

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  • Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic.
  • those subjects are WEIRD, and thus not representative of humanity as a whole. Indeed, as Dr Henrich found from his analysis of leading psychology journals, a random American undergraduate is about 4,000 times more likely than an average human being to be the subject of such a study. Drawing general conclusions about the behaviour of Homo sapiens from the results of these studies is risky.
  • Heather McQuaid on 11 Jun 12
     
    Using crowd sourcing to beat the WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) bias in psych experiments
Mike Finney

WEIRD Science: We Are the Weirdest People in the World | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • researchers recommend
  • incentivize them to use wider subject pools
  • assist them in international collaborations
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  • Language is the easy change which will make a difference
  • American undergraduate is 4,000 times more likely to be a subject in a psychology experiment
yc c

The Rare Humans Who See Time & Have Amazing Memories | Discoblog | Discover Magazine - 0 views

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psychology visualisation article synesthesia

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  • The “normal” form of the condition called synesthesia is weird enough: For people with this condition, sensory information gets mixed in the brain causing them to see sounds, taste colors, or perceive numbers as having particular hues.
MrGhaz .

Games People Play: Laughs at The Expense of Others - 0 views

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  • MrGhaz . on 26 Nov 09
     
    It is said in the 18th century the American general Israel Putnam once invited a British general to a novel test of nerves. Both were to sit on barrels of gunpowder, and the fuses were to bit lit. The last man to run away would be the winner. The unnamed British general accepted Putman's challenge. But as the fuses burned, he became increasingly fidgety while Putnam sat calmly, smoking his pipe. At the last moment the British general fled. Putnam stayed seated; he knew that both barrels were filled with onions. For several hundred years the Tower of London was home to a menagerie of wild animals, including a number of lions that later became the basis of a hoax. Dawk's News-Letter for April 2, 1698, announced: "Yesterday being the one April several persons were sent to the Tower of London to watch the annual lion-washing ceremony." This fictitious event continued to attract gullible visitors. Indeed, 158 years later, in 1856, many bought tickets to attend the ceremony. They were unaware of the significance of the date, April 1, or that the lions had been moved to the London Zoo 21 years before.
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