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by jacalata 4405 days ago
Whoa now, Lazo wants to say the experiment isn't useful because it uses undergrads who may not represent the actual demographic of interest? Does he want to abandon human-subject experiments altogether?
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Abandoning the inexpensive-but-heavily-skewed "grab some of the local population" (of our university town) (in the Western world) wouldn't be a bad idea for psychology, no.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/psychology...

I think I wasn't obvious enough with the sarcasm.