PSYC1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reductionism, Zell Miller, Scientific Control
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Zell miller, governor of georgia at the time got the state legislature to pass a bill in which state bought new mozart cd for every newborn in the state raise iq of georgia. There weren"t babies in the original studies, every attempt to replicate this with young kids never worked. Glen schellenberg in 2001 published an article that said you would get the same e ect if you read a passage of stephen king there is no such e ect, poor controlled experiment it swept the nation this phenomenon. Red wine -> people who drank red wine had less heart attacks correlation not necessarily the red wine that improved health maybe healthier people drank red wine maybe they drink less beer, maybe beer is worse hasn"t been proved. For a young science like psychology, this is a responsibility have to be careful and subject everything to scienti c evaluation direct e ect on the world is immediate.
