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In reply to the discussion: Queen's study finds religion helps us gain self-control [View all]cbayer
(146,218 posts)2. You are right. There is very little information here about the study itself.
I did find a better report of the study in a peer reviewed journal. The results are reported as preliminary and the experiments ongoing. The main researcher's statement above does read more like a foregone conclusion than a hypothesis he wishes to test.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/were-only-human/why-do-we-have-religion-anyway.html
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The convention I learned years ago was the the use of all capitals was reserved for “shouting”
OKIsItJustMe
Jan 2012
#29
Considering that they did NOT utilize the "scientific method" at all, it is hardly "scientific"
cleanhippie
Jan 2012
#32
Its the broad-brush assumptions about what the "study" reveals that is bogus.
cleanhippie
Jan 2012
#40
Then you really shouldn't make claims that this study followed the scientific method.
cleanhippie
Jan 2012
#43
I have no idea. They have not yet published their study and there is not information
cbayer
Jan 2012
#50
“They have test for no other options. Perhaps unscrambling pithy Mark Twain epithets…”
OKIsItJustMe
Jan 2012
#22
There actually was a control condition: unscrambling of nonreligious phrases
LeftishBrit
Jan 2012
#70
Good for you for being done. Some *discussions* in this group are really not discussions at all.
cbayer
Jan 2012
#39
Oh no, we can't have that. Admonishing the OP for the same thing I was admonished for
cleanhippie
Jan 2012
#68
I am not saying this to pick on you personally; there are others who do it much more often
LeftishBrit
Jan 2012
#67
Why is it so difficult to understand that the "simple experiements" did NOT lend ANY credence
cleanhippie
Jan 2012
#35