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This definitely seems like another edition of "researcher generalizes from handful of white college students to entire country". If you asked me to name a grou
by Bartweiss 10y ago
This definitely seems like another edition of "researcher generalizes from handful of white college students to entire country".
If you asked me to name a group with the largest percentage of fake friendships, "college business management class" would be right up there with "popular clique in high school". So the topic is worth talking about, but I'll bet the number is skewed way to the high end.
- oldmanjay 10y agoIt's important to note that your biases certainly don't lend your conclusions any more credence than you're willing to give the article
- Bartweiss 10y agoNo, but I'm not actually objecting to the business management class in particular (that's just a guess). I'm objecting to yet another popular article that treats a narrow study of a non-standard sample like it's ground truth. Generalizing from classmates to friend groups (which are more elective and full of closure/network effects) is totally unsupported, and while that doesn't invalidate the study it certainly cripples the article.