Posted on 07/12/2020 8:17:46 PM PDT by familyop
The study, "Working memory capacity predicts individual differences in social-distancing compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States," assessed the working memory, personality, mood and fluid intelligence of test subjects; the researchers surveyed 850 U.S. residents between March 13 and March 25..."The decision of whether or not to follow social distancing guidelines is a difficult one,...This decision critically relies on our mental capacity in retaining multiple pieces of potentially conflicting information in our head, which is referred to as working memory capacity," study author Weizhen Xie (Zane) told PsyPost.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
So all the “smart folks” behave like sheep and just do as they’re told? Is that the lesson?
Academics have become mental, of late.
Yes.
Can you please post the conclusion of the article?
Thanks.
Whelp. That’s a useless article. Studied 9 people. The premise is overly simplistic. Just dumb. Just because you can couch your thoughts in scientific language and rhetoric doesn’t make your thought’s relevant. Why did you post this familyop? Kind of dumb really. I hope you posted this as sarcasm. Because the article is. Dumb. Sorry. It’ just really dumb. I am trying to like it. But it’s just dumb.
he researchers surveyed 850 U.S. residents
Softheaded pseudoscience, yes, but the sample group was almost 100 times larger than what you alleged.
What a useless bit of drivel. Stupid study in psychology, which has too many variables to make the conclusion of any use. Then stupid reporting of the study, with none of the obvious questions answered.
Still dumb. I am sorry if the excess dumb rubbed off. My IQ, formerly substantial has dropped 25 points just by reading this foolishness.
“This decision critically relies on our mental capacity in retaining multiple pieces of potentially conflicting information in our head, which is referred to as working memory capacity,”
No, this decision critically relies on blind obedience, the ability to accept, without question, dictates and explanations from authority that conflict with logic, common sense, and previous dictates and explanations that have been dropped down the memory hole. To manifest that ability, working memory must be either suppressed or absent.
I have pretty thick Teflon coating, no worries.
Fox News requires that Fox News articles be excerpted. The whole Fox News article is behind the link above this thread. Here’s a link to the abstract for the study.
Working memory capacity predicts individual differences in social-distancing compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Weizhen Xie, Stephen Campbell, and Weiwei Zhang
Edited by Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved June 16, 2020 (received for review May 5, 2020)
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/07/09/2008868117
I was going to comment but social distance posting rules prohibit more than 10 people on a thread and I want to save lives.
study’s author:
Weizhen Xie
National Institutes of Health
University of California Davis
University of California Riverside
Renmin University of China
Thanks for that abstract link!
That’s the media message no matter the story: “If you’re a smart, responsible person, you’ll believe eveything we tell you. Be a critical, questioning thinker...but we did all that hard work for you. Trust us.”
Right.
IOW, more CCP disinformation.
Deport him!
Psychopaths are in charge of these fake studies.
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