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Gem at the bottom: >“The question is whether a truly enlightened person would even participate in our studies,” the authors write. “Would such a person be inte
by daenz 6y ago
Gem at the bottom:
>“The question is whether a truly enlightened person would even participate in our studies,” the authors write. “Would such a person be interested in or even capable of answering all these ‘me’ questions?”
- reality_inspctr 6y agoThis is the key. I can't help but imagine some hyperbole of the advertisement for participants reading some absurd thing like "Are you highly confident in your spiritual strength and have free time to earn $10 / hr?"
- blix 6y agoThe study encodes bias in both participant selection and in the survey questions. I'm not sure why these types of studies are taken seriously. A clever researcher could probably get any result they want.
- chris5745 6y agoThey’re taken seriously because they are discussed and debated ad nauseum. A better question might be who is taking them seriously? Experts in the field, or advertisers?
- pmoriarty 6y ago"Are you highly confident in your spiritual strength and have free time to earn $10 / hr?" Are they participating to earn $10/hr or to help science and understanding of meditation? On the other hand, why can't someone who is confident in their spiritual strength just be poor and actually need the $10/hr?
- smitty1e 6y agoThe answer is that joy is not a finite resource, and in fact grows with the sharing.
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