Interesting read, basically about 25- 27% of participants (nicknamed “compulsives”) wouldn’t change their strategy in a game even after being told exactly why it was wrong. What the study doesn’t say is if this behavior is consistent across the board ( if you are compulsive for this game, are you also for drugs, career, personal hygiene, younameit? Or can you be this type of person for a certain activity and not others?)
The full publication is here.
edit: I actually think these questionaires, like the Audit are successful at determining if someone has an addiciton.
In the past, I’ve seen posts on medical forums about medical professionals attempting to determine how much their patient is lying about drinking. As an example, a patient says “I had a few drinks,” then the nurse asks “is a few 2 or 3?” and the patient responds with “only like 5 or 6.” On these forums, I’ve seen people who claimed to be a doctors, like psychiatrists who claimed an AUDIT questionaire has better accuracy than hapharzard questioning. There’s been some evaluation on how well it performs, it was studied before it became part of the practice.
My other comment, like the meme distribution about IQ was more so making fun of the pop-science article. It wasn’t intended to be a comment on the legitimacy of something like “sensitive people.” I just don’t like psychology or pop science.
