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> In Samples 1, 3, and 4, participants were recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk)... Well that really puts doubt in ny mind. Did they at least use a
by temppppp 3y ago
> In Samples 1, 3, and 4, participants were recruited from
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk)...
Well that really puts doubt in ny mind. Did they at least use a good method to get a realistic sample for Sample 2?
>In Sample 2, par-
ticipants were undergraduates enrolled in an introductory
psychology course at a private university in the southeast.
The same procedures were followed to ensure data quality
in Sample 2...
Nope.
>We examined the associations between conspiracy beliefs,
on the one hand, and self-reported personality traits...
I will say they were reasonably clear about the limitations, but they did proceed to imply conclusons regardless. No conclusions should be drawn from this study.