Recently I've witnessed a Brazilian evo psych ECR claiming they can't study X theory in people without higher education because they can't understand the questionnaires.pic.twitter.com/qlOjQgpmdx
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Up until 2015, about 30 percent of Brazilians were functional illiterates and about 12 percent were fully capable of communicate using written language. These people usually have low income (low SES). Now think of lower income countries. And non-English speakers and so on.
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Let that info sink in when you think of "robust" crosscultural findings using these kind of surveys. And trust me, X theory needs people from heterogeneous backgrounds to be tested. But these people aren't being tested, are they?pic.twitter.com/hxsyONdHNq
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I don't wish people to stop studying undergrads or whatever rocks their boat but please be weary of the limitations of your questions and studies.
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And the WEIRD problem doesn't stop at national borders. Countries have regions and ethnicities that benefit more from a scientific narrative than others. Funding research is a political decision, have you ever thought about that?pic.twitter.com/HYVxLpSBZ6
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In Brazil, science funding tends to be concentrated in the Southeast and the South, the richest regions. I'm fortunate to be member of a fairly well funded lab in the Northeast (for Brazilian standards).
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Then Brazil has this deep historical issue with slave trade and racism. I don't even remember discussing racism as an psych undergrad and I certainly don't remember having a Black psych lecturer. This is hugely problematic in this country.
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Think I'm exaggerating? Consider contacting a high profile Brazilian psych researcher to collect data with Brazilian psych undergrads. These mostly white, mostly middle class kids (psych is a middle/upper-middle class course in Brazil) are going to answer to your questionnaire.pic.twitter.com/NSUIkOMPUx
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(There are plenty of room for variation in undergrads in other courses and other universities, but if you don't look for it you won't find it). Bottom line is: cross-national samples aren't nearly enough to address the WEIRD problem. End.pic.twitter.com/RUqagXpOwc
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