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> “Many people anecdotally claim they do their best thinking when walking. We finally may be taking a step, or two, toward discovering why,” Uh... there is lit
by jrochkind1 6y ago
> “Many people anecdotally claim they do their best thinking when walking. We finally may be taking a step, or two, toward discovering why,”
Uh... there is literally nothing in this summary that suggests anything at all about why, is there? What are the steps or two?
I know we can all make guesses and have pet theories, not asking for that here!
Just annoyed at the scientists who seem to be over-reaching/over-promissing what their research reveals. It seems to be a step (probably not two) towards verifying that what many people intuitively believed is in fact a wide-spread phenomenon, that walking improves creativity. It seems to be zero steps toward discovering why.
Am I missing something?
- curiousgal 6y agoWelcome to psychology research. One of my most controversial opinions is that this field is moot. The subjects are most often either college students or Mechanical Turk workers, usually white and American but that doesn't stop the researchers from haphazardly generalizing their conclusions to the entire human population. Plus the field suffers from a replicability issue that Feynman complained about back in his day. Sure you might say, other fields suffer from similar criticisms but for those fields you can immediately tell what hypothesis they are making and how you can challenge them whereas with psychology there is no telling which characteristics of the subjects yielded the observed results.
- lifeformed 6y agoI think they just wanted to stick a pun in there.
- jrochkind1 6y agoomg i actually didn't even notice the pun. That doesn't make me happier with their science-ing though.