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Offline Ptarmigan

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Are We Predisposed to Political Beliefs?
« 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.
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Re: Are We Predisposed to Political Beliefs?
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Are We Predisposed to Political Beliefs?
« Reply #2 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.
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