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Whoa now, Lazo wants to say the experiment isn't useful because it uses undergrads who may not represent the actual demographic of interest? Does he want to abandon human-subject experiments altogether?



Abandoning the inexpensive-but-heavily-skewed "grab some of the local population" (of our university town) (in the Western world) wouldn't be a bad idea for psychology, no.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/psychology...


I think I wasn't obvious enough with the sarcasm.




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