TIL that the majority of psychological research has been found to have a “WEIRD bias,” meaning that test subjects were from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. As much as 96% of data comes from countries with only 12% of the world's population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#WEIRD_bias
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