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It's sad that I have to ask, and I may become pretty lonely because of it, but has this study been replicated in the meantime?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

Just asking.

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The questions are fairly complex, so I could easily see that people better at reading comprehension, and people who generally read more, will answer better.

Additionally, the correct answers maybe compromised, since social psychology is one of the worst offenders in the replication crisis.

Through self-replication stabilized replication crisis.

Now that sounds fun.

I smell infinite regress there.

Somebody should feed it.

This study isn't about the relationship in both directions. It's only really saying that lonely people might have a implicitly better understanding on the bigger trends that will face society. A total of six studies were examined.

https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/full/10.1027/1864-9335/a000...

Thanks for pointing out.

And self-reported feelings of sadness and lonelyness could also be interpreted as symptoms of a more or less mild depression.

Which makes this study prone to the same problems of the hypothesis of depressive realism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism

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