Why WEIRD Samples Might Not be Weird

Dec 4, 2024

The WEIRD acronym (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, & Democratic) is a negative and provocative buzzword that stuck. Such self-flagellation has been the trend in modern academia

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Paula Wright

Dec 13

@rosemaryhopcroft has a new book on this: "Not so weird after all" I'm interview her soon!

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Dr Lawrence Patihis, PhD

Dec 13

I never even knew, what a coincidentally similar title!

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Why WEIRD Samples Might Not be Weird