Status Updates From Quirkology: The Curious Sci...

It’s interesting, but isn’t providing me with much practical/life changing information. Some of the content, like about the fake smiles, seemed like common sense to me. However, I am still enjoying reading it and will continue.

So far this book seems very interesting. It’s a little outdated (relative to other books I’m reading) but that doesn’t affect the quality of it.

Yeah so the problem is I think this guy is actually way overestimating how good he is at spotting when people are lying.

Anecdotal at best

Love that he fully admitted these studies can't be replicated and was like "but maybe they're true!"

Yeah man I'm gonna need you to repeat this is several other locations and get similar results otherwise this is basically just an anecdote

Im sorry you just

Ignored

That June didn't support your data?? You can't just ignore data that's inconvenient to your study!

Why is he calling this a large scale public experiment when what it actually is is a large scale voluntary response survey given at a fair

So voluntary response surveys aren't great in terms of the results they give you which tend to be highly biased

I mean yeah luck isn't real what do you want man

If you're going to cite a study and say that it's controversial tell me why it's controversial and why you feel it's worth citing anyway

Hey you can't tell me a study is controversial and not tell me why

So idk who needs to hear this but a professor doing a non-sanctioned "study" on his college class is not a scientifically valid study and is instead just some guy fucking with his students

Which is fine just don't pretend it's a scientifically valid experiment