You know, I always kinda thought this one was bullshit.

There’s a few others that I remember from my days (briefly) as a psych major where I was like, huh. This sounds like pop pseudoscience. Stanford Prison Experiment, that fake electroshock one, the beating up the clown one.

Basically, I am a psychology denier. I think we draw overbroad inferences about people and the world based on limited (and sometimes bogus) studies designed by weirdos.

Some of that is bound up in a broader societal problem where individual studies are treated as gospel and over generalized to score political points. I’m sure I’ve been guilty of that, too - something I’m trying to be a lot more deliberate about avoiding, esp given Covid.