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> Six studies—including two pilot studies, an archival study across 185 U.S. metropolitan areas (Study 1), a preregistered experiment conducted in Singapore (St

> Six studies—including two pilot studies, an archival study across 185 U.S. metropolitan areas (Study 1), a preregistered experiment conducted in Singapore (Study 2), an experience-sampling study among engineers conducted in India (Study 3), and an online experiment (Study 4) I suspect that the society in which the studies occurred might have more to do with the conclusion than the robots themselves. Had there been contributions from northern Europe where automation is often the only way to make an activity profitable the conclusion might have been a little more nuanced.

psychomugs 4y ago
You could say the same (“but what about $GROUP”) for quite literally any such study. Sampling broadly is an oft-insurmountable part of such research; this demographic spread - along with the relatively large collaboration across six universities - is actually much larger than typical study samples that involve only WEIRD [1] populations. [1] “White, Educated, Independent, Rich, Democratic”
- welshwelsh 4y ago
  The W usually stands for "western," not "white" lol
- kwhitefoot 4y ago
  My point was that the title and conclusions were expressed in a more universal way than warranted by the population studied
mc32 4y ago
Or Japan or Korea --two countries that have embraced robotics.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y ago
  “Although human–robot collaborations can create new jobs and increase productivity, pundits often warn about how robots might replace humans at work and create mass unemployment. Despite these warnings, relatively little research has directly assessed how laypeople react to robots in the workplace.“ One of the main goals of the article appears to be fact-checking the claims made against robotics in industrialized nations that haven’t psychologically embraced robotics. Other research would likely find different results in those cultures - e.g., people probably wouldn’t feel insecure in those cultures, and therefore wouldn’t have negative reactions coming from insecurities.

psychomugs 4y ago

You could say the same (“but what about $GROUP”) for quite literally any such study. Sampling broadly is an oft-insurmountable part of such research; this demographic spread - along with the relatively large collaboration across six universities - is actually much larger than typical study samples that involve only WEIRD [1] populations. [1] “White, Educated, Independent, Rich, Democratic”

welshwelsh 4y ago
The W usually stands for "western," not "white" lol
kwhitefoot 4y ago
My point was that the title and conclusions were expressed in a more universal way than warranted by the population studied

mc32 4y ago

Or Japan or Korea --two countries that have embraced robotics.

9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y ago
“Although human–robot collaborations can create new jobs and increase productivity, pundits often warn about how robots might replace humans at work and create mass unemployment. Despite these warnings, relatively little research has directly assessed how laypeople react to robots in the workplace.“ One of the main goals of the article appears to be fact-checking the claims made against robotics in industrialized nations that haven’t psychologically embraced robotics. Other research would likely find different results in those cultures - e.g., people probably wouldn’t feel insecure in those cultures, and therefore wouldn’t have negative reactions coming from insecurities.