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The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not (Ep. 469 Replay)

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Are You Trying to Talk About Humans?

The research subject explained to him that, oh, i feel so bad for you that you can't afford pants without holes in them. And it struck me as a way in which this experiment could be bino perverted. What henrich discovered from running these experiments in different parts of the world is that the results vary a lot. This suggests that every time a social scientist runs an experiment whose research subjects are weird, that's capital letter weird, the results of that experiment may be meaningful in the us. But quite likely not in others. So again, if you want to talk about americans, youre ok. But if you wantto talk about humans, then you have a problem

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