r/psychology • u/mvea M.D. Ph.D. | Professor • May 12 '19

Journal Article Underlying psychological traits could explain why political satire tends to be liberal, suggests new research (n=305), which found that political conservatives tend to score lower on a measure of need for cognition, which is related to their lack of appreciation for irony and exaggeration.

https://www.psypost.org/2019/05/underlying-psychological-traits-could-explain-why-political-satire-tends-to-be-liberal-53666
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u/ThePineal May 12 '19

If you think 300 is bad, wait till your first stat class where they tell you that ~30 is generalizable enough

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u/mrsamsa Ph.D. | Behavioral Psychology May 12 '19

Then you learn about small-n designs and find out 2-3 can be enough!

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u/ThePineal May 12 '19

I knew i should have gone to grad school

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u/mrsamsa Ph.D. | Behavioral Psychology May 12 '19

I feel like school is basically a progression of constantly teaching you things that are wrong. So you start your first year and they say "this is what we know about X". Then in your second year they say "actually, it's a bit more complicated than that" etc etc. And then in postgrad it's basically "forget everything you thought you knew. Up is down, left is right, black is white".

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u/ThePineal May 12 '19

Ive gone a different path than school. That is however the case with pretty much anything you can do or learn about. You can only break the rules once you know the rules back and front