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> In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study ... A few years later, a new set of Stanford students was recruited
by TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
> In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study ... A few years later, a new set of Stanford students was recruited for a related study.
We have to wonder if Stanford undergraduate student generalises to the whole population.
It doesn't require much stretching of the imagination to see that circa 1975 Stanford undergraduates, as a cohort, may score below average on objective measures of humbleness.
- conistonwater 8y agoDoes it really rely on 1975 Stanford undergrads, though? For example, I think Dan Kahan (Yale's Cultural Cognition Project at http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/ http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/) usually says about the same thing about facts and changing minds.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoThe first discussion in your link talks about peoples bias for wanting to remove plastic from the ocean remote from the source, rather than at the source. Surely it's obvious that preventing plastic entering the ocean at the source does nothing to remove the plastic that's already there. Maybe I should read more of this blog, but that doesn't inspire confidence.
- conistonwater 8y agoI think you should, if you scroll back a couple of years, there's plenty of discussion of published research on science communication, which might be more interesting to you.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoCool, thanks, I'll have a gander.
- boomboomsubban 8y ago>It doesn't require much stretching of the imagination to see that circa 1975 Stanford undergraduates, as a cohort, may score below average on objective measures of humbleness. Which doesn't matter in this test. Both groups in this study would have the presumed bias, so the differences in scores could still be attributed to the independent variable.