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Most saliently, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, which means we are overconfident, self-obsessed and even more suicide-prone. WEIRD people also tend to be highly analytical in their thinking. That is, we focus on individuals and their properties at the expense of relationships and backgrounds.
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May 1, 2010 · They found that people from Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (WEIRD) societies — who represent as much as 80 percent of study participants, but only 12 percent of the world’s population — are not only unrepresentative of humans as a species, but on many measures they’re outliers.
WEIRD is the phenomenon that plagues a lot of psychology and other social science studies: Their participants are overwhelming Western, educated, and from industrialized, rich, and democratic ...
Oct 28, 2017 · "WEIRD" is an acronym coined by Henrich, Heine, and Norenzayan: samples that are drawn from populations that are White, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. Ninety-nine percent of...
Aug 2, 2024 · Highly educated upper-middle-class people are hugely overrepresented in the ranks of the national media and national politics, two labor forces with a lot of overlap—many journalists at prestige...
Psychology has a WEIRD problem. It is overly reliant on participants from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. Over the last decade this problem has come to be widely acknowledged, yet there has been little progress toward making psychology more diverse.
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Apr 3, 2020 · People on the periphery of their environment often have surprising strengths, including creativity. What’s more, weirdos can develop ways to calm their social anxiety, break into the in-crowd...