4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2013
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Thousands of studies in psychology rely on data from North American undergraduates. Can we really conclude anything about the "human" mind from such a limited sample-- especially since Westerners are probably more different from the rest of the world's population than any other group? We talk about Joseph Henrich and colleagues' critique of the behavioral sciences in their paper "The WEIRDEST People in the World." David offers a defense of psychology, arguing that it's usually not the goal of lab studies to generalize findings to all humans in the first place. Also, Tamler gives a brief, heartfelt, completely non-awkward rant about monkey torturer Harry Harlow and David defends the practice of electrocuting baby monkeys for no reason.
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0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
0:06.0 | having an informal discussion about issues and science and ethics. |
0:09.4 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say |
0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
0:16.8 | I see how they get their information and I can't believe that they know what they |
0:22.0 | haven't done the work necessary, I'm done the checks necessary, I'm done the can necessary. |
0:26.4 | I have a great suspicion that they don't know that this stuff is, and they're intimidating people. |
0:56.4 | I'm a very good man, just a very bad wizard. |
1:20.0 | Welcome to very bad wizards, I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
1:23.6 | And I'm David Pizarro from Cornell University. |
1:25.6 | This is a podcast with me, a philosopher, and Dave, a psychologist, and noted anti-Semite. |
1:32.6 | Every time you say that you're a philosopher, I feel like quoting the Prince of Sprite and saying, |
1:36.5 | I don't think that you will know what that, understand what that word really means. |
1:40.2 | I don't think that word means what you think of me, that's right. |
1:43.9 | Yeah, and on this show we discuss issues and science and ethics and we do it in a fairly informal way |
1:52.8 | as if both of us were in a bar and sometimes we're actually drinking. |
1:57.0 | So you are, I mean somebody made note of that in our iTunes review, that uh, |
2:03.0 | yeah, I don't think they made note that it was me that was doing the drink. |
2:06.4 | I think they said both of us, but actually it was a listener, Cheryl Namius, |
2:11.3 | who I thought described the spirit of the show perfectly. She said sitting here with Eddie, |
2:16.6 | that's her husband, listening to one of your shows. |
2:19.3 | Actual philosopher Eddie Namius. Yeah, that's just an actual philosopher Eddie Namius. |
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