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266. Jesse Singal on Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is the Test a Bug?

The test goes against everything we know from polion data about what people say their attitudes are r blacks and women. I like the line, you know, tha, that conservatives are more liberal to day than liberals were in the 19 fifties. There's almost an element o sort of those a salem style tests for who's a witch and who isn't. i don't think this was intentional malpesance on the part of the researchers. They got excited and got a little bit ahead of their skhis with it.

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