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The study is suggesting that the marshmallow test is a test of mother without college degree, and not testing something about the children beyond that. [0] And
by yk 8y ago
The study is suggesting that the marshmallow test is a test of mother without college degree, and not testing something about the children beyond that. [0]
And in general, my suspicion about psychology is, that since you can always invent an objection in the form of your (1) and (2), I doubt that statistic is an actually good tool to look at these tests. If we assume for a moment that we somehow get a ground truth of the experiment, by divine revelation or however, then I suspect that we would see that we need as many categories as there are children to get anything predictive.
[0] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618761661 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618761661
- jabgrabdthrow 8y ago> I suspect that we would see that we need as many categories as there are children to get anything predictive. Making a category to predict human behavior generally hurts those who are “miscategorized” much more than it helps those who are accurately categorized (there aren’t really “positive stereotypes” that jump into active-decision processes like with negative stereotypes). Therefore, we should not try to predict behavior by making even fuzzy-categories other than one-child-per-category, since this may literally hurt children, especially systemically underprivileged and underrepresented children. It’s important to control your own decision factors against your local collection of “known non-causations”!