the WEIRD sample strikes again! I hope we at least have a round of reproducibility crises in management research within a decade, because evidently it's not reached them yet.
> The researchers conducted a series of in-lab experiments with 86 four-person teams, and also traced the communications and experiences of 134 teams doing a semester-long project in a university class
Perhaps I'm ignorant and I'm missing something obvious - but how exactly are we going to apply this particular experiment to pre-industrial, uneducated population? We're talking about communication in remote virtual meetings.
The original WEIRD paper contrasts the industrial societies with small-scale ones. Can we even find small-scale societies that do virtual remote work?
There's more than pre-industrial people in the complement to the WEIRD-collage population, you know? Like maybe start with real adults working actual jobs?
You could also see how it works for Canadians, Indians, Chileans, Thai, Russians, Nigerians... all have developed enough economies that there are at least some remote workers.
>Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies.
> The researchers conducted a series of in-lab experiments with 86 four-person teams, and also traced the communications and experiences of 134 teams doing a semester-long project in a university class