Priming

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priming

Title text: Do you think this comic is overly wordy, or did I just prime you to believe that?

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Recent studies have cast doubt on the so-called "priming" effect in psychology, in which people are said to change their behavior in response to subtle environmental cues.

These doubts are needless because we can prove that priming exists analytically.

Imagine an experiment in

There are two possible outcomes:

If they exhibit priming effects, trivially, priming is real.

Which subjects

The subjects exhibit priming effects or the subjects dont exhibit priming effects.

Are primed to believe priming doesn't work.

If they don't, it shows that we successfully primed them to exhibit no priming effects.

Given that there is only one

Possible outcome, the experiment is unnecessary.

This is all stupid

Aha/ you only believe that because I primed you by saying stupid stuff earlier!

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Please oh please let nobody think this is serious commen tay on the field of psychology

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