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Title: Are We Predisposed to Political Beliefs?
Post by: Ptarmigan on January 01, 2012, 05:16:25 PM

Are We Predisposed to Political Beliefs?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-we-predisposed-to-political-beliefs

This is from September 2007.

Title: Re: Are We Predisposed to Political Beliefs?
Post by: thundley4 on January 01, 2012, 06:30:46 PM

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If an "M" popped on the screen, the respondent had 500 milliseconds (a half second) to press a key on the keyboard before him or her; if a "W" appeared, the person was told to do nothing.

I think that is an invalid method of testing.  he better way would have been to choose between two buttons, imo.

Title: Re: Are We Predisposed to Political Beliefs?
Post by: docstew on January 01, 2012, 07:02:32 PM

Quote from: thundley4 on January 01, 2012, 06:30:46 PM

I think that is an invalid method of testing.  he better way would have been to choose between two buttons, imo.

I think they drew some faulty conclusions based upon correlation.