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This is the key. I can't help but imagine some hyperbole of the advertisement for participants reading some absurd thing like "Are you highly confident in your spiritual strength and have free time to earn $10 / hr?"


"Are you highly confident in your spiritual strength and have free time to earn $10 / hr?"

Are they participating to earn $10/hr or to help science and understanding of meditation?

On the other hand, why can't someone who is confident in their spiritual strength just be poor and actually need the $10/hr?


The study encodes bias in both participant selection and in the survey questions.

I'm not sure why these types of studies are taken seriously. A clever researcher could probably get any result they want.


They’re taken seriously because they are discussed and debated ad nauseum. A better question might be who is taking them seriously? Experts in the field, or advertisers?




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