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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
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. |
A middle of the road sample... of reasonably privileged Americans aged 18-22, all students at the same 4-year college, who are reading short stories they were told to read for study-participation class credit. I just don't think that sample or that methodology can be generalised to "most people everywhere of all ages and backgrounds actually enjoy spoiled novels/TV shows/movies/short stories even though they say they don't".