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As the article mentions in like the first couple of paragraphs, those results haven't generally withstood replication. But more so, the effects in the Slate St
by aetherson 9y ago
As the article mentions in like the first couple of paragraphs, those results haven't generally withstood replication.
But more so, the effects in the Slate Star Codex survey are extremely strong. You'd expect that an effect that strong would be part of the common wisdom, not something that has to be teased out in a psychological study.
- dclowd9901 9y agoWell, to what you just mentioned, it -seems- to be a "common wisdom" that is disregarded by scientific study. So, maybe this is a case where the study was ill-designed, but everyone took it for granted?
- aetherson 9y agoI don't think it is common wisdom. Like, look: which of your coworkers are first-born? How many of them did you intuit that without explicitly asking?
- AstralStorm 9y agoThat depends on the field. The guesses can be very accurate based on ancillary data like profession.