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johnnyFive  ·  2379 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Religious Children Are Meaner Than Their Secular Counterparts, Study Finds

This article hides the ball a lot. It gives 0 information on methodology, nor does it link to the study. I'm suspicious of looking at social attitudes from different countries -- how did they control for cultural differences? What about the fact that they used kids from 5-12 years old? Things like empathy and just general personality change a lot during that time.

    Muslim children judged “interpersonal harm as more mean” than children from Christian families, with non-religious children the least judgmental.

So, religious kids were harsher critics of someone causing harm, and this is used as a conclusion that they're meaner?

This is one of the big problems with studies like this: they're incredibly reductionist, and all they really do is measure the extent to which people appear, if you squint hard enough (i.e. massage the data enough), to conform to the authors' chosen ideas of what something like "meanness" actually means.