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Aella
@Aella_Girl
the amount of 'but your sample has bias' i get any time i faintly breathe about my data makes me wanna delete twitter. imo most people are wrong about when and why sampling bias is bad, and also assigning unfair scrutiny to me vs other published research because of credentialism
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
my samples are likely more reliable than most published social research and im starting to suspect you're complaining about me and not them because im publishing my results in blog posts and twitter instead of precisely formatted pdfs and don't have a degree
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Hannah Metzler
@hannahmetzler1
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@Aella_Girl
I do research with Twitter data as a proper academic & I get this as a question for every talk & review. It isn't about you, people have nothing more substantial to say, but feel smart saying sth. Also, they have no idea how bad normal psych study samples are.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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yeah I think it would feel less bad to me if it were a genuine question? the thing that really irks me are ppl who say they have authority, confidently informing me and everyone watching that actually my sample is worthless and I'm not doing science. happens SO much
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