XKCD 2456
XKCD 2456
Posted May 5, 2021 10:09 UTC (Wed) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334)In reply to: XKCD 2456 by pr1268
Parent article: "Full disclosure" from the University of Minnesota
>> WE SCANNED SOME UNDERGRADUATES
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> I don't get that, but perhaps that's the point.
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> I don't get that, but perhaps that's the point.
The most affordable testing human material for the university researchers are sophomores, so they are by far the most common test subjects of most human research studies. There are many researchers in social and experimental psychology (where I have some knowledge of the field) acutely aware of how many papers are distorted by most of the research done on not-completely-mature and in-many-other-ways special test subjects.