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Originally Posted by aperson

You should focus more on being skeptical of drawing conclusions in either direction then if you aren't capable of parsing relevant literature. You can end up believing whatever you want if your deductive method is Have Belief -> Find Supporting Anecdote.

One of the best actual valuable things I got out of college was understanding research methods and how to parse the effect size, uncertainty, and possible confounds of different experimental designs.

well no i mean i saw that the one study was mostly white dudes when I checked it out. the sample size isn't the best either. however, they provided the survey to be used at other campuses and i'd be interested in seeing if it was conducted with a bit more control and a larger sample