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How is this valid research? You can only draw a correlation between money and "humanity". It makes more sense that people who have less "humanity" causes them t
by fragsworth 14y ago
How is this valid research? You can only draw a correlation between money and "humanity". It makes more sense that people who have less "humanity" causes them to become more wealthy, not the other way around.
To show convincingly that more money causes you to have less "humanity", you have to have two groups:
1) Control group. Monitor their "humanity" over several years.
2) Test group. Give these people lots of money. Monitor their "humanity" over several years.
This would be quite an expensive study.
- mcguire 14y agoDid you actually read the article? "Give these people lots of money" and "Monitor their 'humanity'" is exactly what is described in the Monopoly game. The result was that the group given more money "act[s] out social dominance with a special ferociousness, slapping hands, stamping feet, or 'charging back and forth and dragging huge branches'" (oops, I mean "he balloons in size [...,] smacks his playing piece [...,] picks up Glasses’s piece [...] and moves it for him").
- robotresearcher 14y agoYou read a journalist's interpretation of a research article. These are almost always a disaster from a scientific point of view. Your question is unfair to the original authors unless you read their paper.