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the WEIRD sample strikes again! I hope we at least have a round of reproducibility crises in management research within a decade, because evidently it's not rea
by SiempreViernes 6y ago
the WEIRD sample strikes again! I hope we at least have a round of reproducibility crises in management research within a decade, because evidently it's not reached them yet.
> The researchers conducted a series of in-lab experiments with 86 four-person teams, and also traced the communications and experiences of 134 teams doing a semester-long project in a university class
- triyambakam 6y agoWhat is WEIRD in this context?
- phaemon 6y agoLook at weirdceo.com Wisdom, Emotional Intelligence, Initiative, Robot, Dastardly or something like that.
- bobbiechen 6y ago>Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/weirdest-people-in-the-world/BF84F7517D56AFF7B7EB58411A554C17 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain...
- duckmysick 6y agoPerhaps I'm ignorant and I'm missing something obvious - but how exactly are we going to apply this particular experiment to pre-industrial, uneducated population? We're talking about communication in remote virtual meetings. The original WEIRD paper contrasts the industrial societies with small-scale ones. Can we even find small-scale societies that do virtual remote work?
- SiempreViernes 6y agoThere's more than pre-industrial people in the complement to the WEIRD-collage population, you know? Like maybe start with real adults working actual jobs? You could also see how it works for Canadians, Indians, Chileans, Thai, Russians, Nigerians... all have developed enough economies that there are at least some remote workers.