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This isn't a study, this is an essay about an activity that some people did.

"The researchers, whose work is featured in the March 15 issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, conducted four separate studies to measure the trait and learn more about how it functions."

oh wow, 4 activities, good for them.

So? Have essays and thinking outside of formal studies gone out of style now?

If you are trying to make wide general conclusions from it, Yes.

Its probably due from once trusted institutions getting so much wrong from the health pyramid, replication crisis, even election polling.

Nasim Taleb has a good series on why distrust is increasing.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...

well, in that case, I guess the real problem is what the subtitle claims.

>Trait increases tolerance, improves decision-making, study says

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