Re:Psychopathological Correlates of Conspiracy Beliefs
by temppppp on Monday March 04, 2024 @06:32AM
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> In Samples 1, 3, and 4, participants were recruited from
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk)...
Well that really puts doubt in ny mind. Did they at least use a good method to get a realistic sample for Sample 2?
>In Sample 2, par-
ticipants were undergraduates enrolled in an introductory
psychology course at a private university in the southeast.
The same procedures were followed to ensure data quality
in Sample 2...
Nope.
>We examined the associations between conspiracy beliefs,
on the one hand, and self-reported personality traits...
I will say they were reasonably clear about the limitations, but they did proceed to imply conclusons regardless. No conclusions should be drawn from this study.
Well that really puts doubt in ny mind. Did they at least use a good method to get a realistic sample for Sample 2? >In Sample 2, par- ticipants were undergraduates enrolled in an introductory psychology course at a private university in the southeast. The same procedures were followed to ensure data quality in Sample 2...
Nope.
>We examined the associations between conspiracy beliefs, on the one hand, and self-reported personality traits...
I will say they were reasonably clear about the limitations, but they did proceed to imply conclusons regardless. No conclusions should be drawn from this study.