[constantius]

Arguably, we'd have fared worse: we'd be starting our days by taking a power stance while listening to the TV broadcast of lists of positive words to prime ourselves into greatness, then we'd go out and salute people with "Most people in your neighbourhood are having a great day". All exams would be not-eating-marshmallows exams. Only upshot I can think of is HN would be called PHackerNews.

No, if there's one social science we should have picked, it's anthropology I tell you.

[disgruntledphd2]

> Arguably, we'd have fared worse: we'd be starting our days by taking a power stance while listening to the TV broadcast of lists of positive words to prime ourselves into greatness, then we'd go out and salute people with "Most people in your neighbourhood are having a great day".

This is all psychology research (which presumably you know). (I definitely do as I have a PhD in it).

> No, if there's one social science we should have picked, it's anthropology I tell you.

I actually agree with this, will update my rant to include this next time.

[constantius]

Yes... I should have come up with jokes about deconstructing the power dynamics inherent to lunch, but I don't know many egregious examples of retracted sociology studies, so I chose to not only disregard HN rules but also to do so lazily...

Will do better when I reply to your anthropology-fueled rant.