The article, “Experimental Psychology: The roar of the crowd” from the issue of “The Economist” for the period 25.5-01.06.2012 reports on using methods of crowdsourcing for new, far more representative survey scenarios.
Many of the results of experimental psychology, according to this article are questionable because they are often based on tests with students at Western universities. These are not a representative group, neither for people in the West nor and still less for the whole world. This confirms doubts expressed by Christoper Ryan and Cacilda Jethá, the authors of the book “Sex at Dawn” about methods and results of psychological experiments.
One question that I miss: the results may not only lack because of the surveyed participants, but also because the researchers tend to work in western thought patterns.
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