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Wed 27 Jan, 2010 08:50 pm
What does "that leaves about 95 percent of the world's population outside its frame" mean?
It leaves the 95% outside its ideological room?
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The authors point out that this emphasis on choice and freedom is not universal. "The picture presented by a half-century of research may present an accurate picture of the psychological importance of choice, freedom, and autonomy among middle-class, college-educated Americans, but this is a picture that leaves about 95 percent of the world's population outside its frame," the authors write.
If you take a picture, and frame it, some of the world is depicted inside the picture frame. The rest of the world is "outside" of the picture frame.
The point is that most psychological research in the U.S. is performed on college undergraduate students. This is a selection bias for culture, education level, and affluence.
Yes. American college students are not very representative of the world's population. It's always fun to think about how an alien from some distant startwould think of us as a whole just by meeting some of us.
Meeting college students from the USA would give poor Uw96qqdezil a very limited view of humanity.
Joe(...and they all wear what are called 'jeans'.)Nation
@oristarA,
There was a study of
Quote:middle-class, college-educated Americans
. The results of the study are described as a picture/snapshot.
Most of the world (95% according to the article you've referenced) does not fall into the category defined by quote]middle-class, college-educated Americans[/quote]. Therefore, the rest of the world is outside of the picture frame.
The results of the research do not tell us anything about 95 percent of the world's population.
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