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kleinbl00  ·  2863 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A post-truth thought experiment

    Because the plural of “anecdote” is “anecdata,” I asked an abbreviated form of this question on Twitter.

The plural of "anecdote" is "anecdotes" and "self-reported data" is not data. Asking people on Twitter what they think is a terrible way to determine what they'd do which is why actual psychological research isn't done this way.

I recognize that this is a 'thought experiment' but it's being done in a way as to shape stuff outside of that thought. Dan Ariely, on the other hand, wrote an entire book about this, based on 30,000 research subjects: