Thread: Do Spoilers Improve Books?
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Old 04-17-2014, 07:02 PM   #38
SteveEisenberg
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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks View Post
Not impressed with the study (I hope y'all didn't get paid a lot of money to run that thing).
The UC San Diego Department of Psychology is too highly ranked for their faculty not to be getting salaries in the upper level for their profession. I'm, of course, not saying this makes it a good study, and only mention it because you brought up the money angle

The sample size of 819 seems to me impressively high.

If you think about what kind of undergraduates attend UC San Diego (well above average, but not the absolute top), and the fact that they preferred genre over literary works, it seems to me a reasonable middle of the road sample for the purpose.

What would it take to impress you?
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