We propose that [people’s concerns for the inherent costs of social distancing while discounting its public health benefits] may be associated with the limitation in one’s mental capacity to simultaneously retain multiple pieces of information in working memory (WM) for rational decision making that leads to social-distancing compliance.
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We found that participants’ social-distancing compliance at this initial stage could be predicted by individual differences in WM capacity, partly due to increased awareness of benefits over costs of social distancing among higher WM capacity individuals.
I suppose it's possible that the methods and discussion does have some tests for that... but
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I don't believe this is real, it's too perfect.
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Martin Y wrote: Wed Jul 15, 2020 1:31 pm"We think people who do stupid stuff may be stupid."
Okay. Great.
"Our data supports this hypothesis."
Ah. Data, you say?
"<Stuff about compliance versus working memory capacity>"
Working memory capacity. And you measured this how?
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Nope.
Who's calling them stupid I'm not calling them stupid. Just because they have a limitation in their mental capacity to simultaneously retain multiple pieces of information in working memory for rational decision making doesn't mean they're stupid.
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