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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"

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

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