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womzilla ([personal profile] womzilla) wrote in [personal profile] supergee 2022-01-06 09:29 pm (UTC)

Good twitter thread here about how Johann Hari cherry-picks and misreports sources or just plain uses junk science to make his point.
https://twitter.com/DrMatthewSweet/status/1479125910896975877

just for instance, "Moreover, the researchers concluded that the subjects adapted surprisingly well to these [distracting] circumstances. Some who were warned that the interruptions would come actually did BETTER in the test than those who sat there unbothered by extra instructions from the experimenters."

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