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Up to half of the earth's population doesn't have an inner monologue, up to half of the earth has never had a shower thought (lemmy.world)
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

That’s still just asking people, which isn’t exactly the most scientific method. If you were to stop me and ask what I was thinking, a lot of the time I wouldn’t be able to tell you - but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t thinking. Thinking without being consciously aware of it is basically what I’m doing all day, every day. It's mostly when I try to just be and let the world come to me that I become aware of how quickly I get lost in thought.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Probably a good thing they asked volunteers interested in the study to do it instead of someone such as yourself, who isn't.

    I remember the researcher saying that it took some time for the participants to get used to the routine of being mindful of their thoughts and journaling at the drop of a hat

    I know I wouldn't want to do that either

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Probably a good thing they asked volunteers interested in the study to do it instead of someone such as yourself, who isn’t.

    Ignoring the ad hominem, I don’t see how that’s supposed to be an argument against what I said - it only highlights that the participants weren’t even randomly selected. If you're cherry-picking participants, there’s even less reason to generalize the findings to the entire population.

    As I mentioned in my other comment: you could just as easily run a study asking people to self-report whether they have a blind spot in their visual field, and everyone would say no - and everyone would be wrong.

    Just because someone isn’t aware of something doesn’t mean it isn’t there. I’m not asking you to change your opinion - I’m simply saying I’m highly skeptical of it.

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