Perhaps Perhaps of interest to the psychologists and ethologists in the group: claim that research is biased (and therefore unreliable to a degree) because the people studied are WEIRD - Western - Educated -Industrialized - Rich - (from) Democratic societies
and animals studied are STRANGE - Social background - Trap-ability and self-selection - Rearing history - Acclimation and habituation - Natural changes in responsiveness - Genetic makeup - Experience Research claims about how humans in general, or animal species as a species are biased/flawed because the studies fail to account for the WEIRD / STRANGE factors into account. davew -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/