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He also keeps using "study" to mean "annoying thing I did on a whim and didn't have to get an ethics board to approve"

I don't like the way this guy talks about studies as though they're infalliable. Particularly when they're his own studies

The thing is the thing he's talking about here is real (memory is demonstrably malleable and unreliable) it's just the studies he's citing are either unethical or insufficient to use as evidence of statistically significant trends

So I'm just pissed off about it

Where's the Zoidberg meme

Yknow

Your sample size is small, your standard deviation is high, your conclusion means nothing, and you should feel bad

Every study he cites could be responded to with that

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 It’s a little outdated (relative to other books I’m reading) but that doesn’t affect the quality of it.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