(February 19, 2013 at 2:26 pm)John V Wrote: Ah, so peer reviewed journals can be bought off.
Not bought off, but they can be wrong, something you've clearly never even considered. The term you're looking for is called peer-review failure; since the reviewers of these studies generally don't have the raw data involved, certain things have to be taken on trust, and even if we remove the very clear bias in this study, there are numerous methodological problems in the execution of collecting this data, and also numerous issues that only came to light once the study had been concluded, as is the nature of self reporting, that call the conclusions therein into question.
That's the great thing about peer review, though; it generally doesn't just end at publication. You can bet your bottom dollar that if anything goes wrong in the guts of a study or report, the rest of the field will point it out. As is what happened here; the American Psychological Association isn't something piffling, John. One should pay attention when they shake their head at your citation.
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