Larks comments on Beware of WEIRD psychological samples - Less Wrong

38 Post author: ciphergoth 13 September 2009 11:28AM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 14 September 2009 11:49:59AM 4 points [-]

This sort of thing only works if you don't get too much garbage in your replications.

You have way too much trust in the professors. Just a few students naive enough to do what they're supposed to would be an improvement on the status quo.

Comment author: Larks 14 September 2009 07:24:56PM 2 points [-]

The huge amount of data that could be gathered should allow for checking; data that is both different from what westerners would expect, and consistent over several independent students, is likely to be accurate. Or at least, not inaccurate because of lazy students.