University of British Columbia researchers Joe Henrich, Steven Heine and Ara Norenzayan wrote a review concluding that WEIRD populations are not representative of humans as a species and are outliers on many measures.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by the original 2010 Behavioral and Brain Sciences paper abstract, PubMed, SSRN, Cambridge University Press, and secondary coverage from APA Monitor and ScienceDaily. Attribution to Henrich, Heine, and Norenzayan at UBC is accurate. [cascade flags: aggregator_dropped_primary_exists | tier=silver indep_score=1.0 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable | kind=attributed eligibility=high]
Sources
- Are your findings 'WEIRD'? - American Psychological Association (seed:psychology_and_neuroscience)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20550733/ (corroboration)
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1601785 (corroboration)
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/weirdest-people-in-the-world/BF84F7517D56AFF7B7EB58411A554C17 (corroboration)