You’re not WEIRD
This stands for Western educated, industrialized, rich and democratic societies (WEIRD)
— who represent as much as 80 percent of study participants, but only 12 percent of the world’s population — are not only unrepresentative of humans as a species, but on many measures they’re outliers.
As a concept
It’s when you take studied information that applies to one context (usually the WEIRD context). And try to apply it to your own.
Story
When I’m gardening Spring is the time to plant right? to get summer crop Wrong! In the Philippines, May is when we harvest and rest the land July is when we plant new crops Understand that seasons are different in the Philippines (idea concept) The timing of festivals and dictating seasons
Application
To me this means that we do have to take these studies with a grain of salt
This is why you should Adopt an experimenter’s mindset There are studies, and then there is you