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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.

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

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