Hello again, name is ryan! Apple podcasts gives me a goofy name and idk how to change it.
This podcast gets better with time… give it a chance people! They also take feedback seriously and respectfully, which is rare in alternative media.
To follow up on your recorded response (thanks by the way!), I honestly cant remember what i meant about implications being more interesting than the research. I actually want general understanding of how evopsych research is done (i.e., methods), along with critical/conceptualizing commentary. But that is where the hand holding is necessary. Also since it is a podcast, a little gossip about the literature/subfield this study lives in is always fun ;)
I think what i might have meant was that blanket references to findings without background or implications around it might be difficult for laypeople to think about on their own. But it sounds like you guys have gotten better at this as i listen more.
To defend the importance of implications a little… i do think it is important that the hosts tell us why we should care about the research (and not assume we already do). I think there is somewhat of a crisis of laypeople dismissing research as a waste of time / separate from the real world. The caricature of researchers i think people have in their heads is that researchers are sitting there asking “do participants prefer blue or black pens when filling out surveys?” Consider coverage of implications a service to the discourse lol. More trivially i think people listen to podcasts to sound interesting and well informed in conversation with others. Implications or background info help us do that….
Overall, its fine if this is not for a general audience, but you might occasionally get the annoying reviewer (reviewer #2) like me saying its boring or hard to follow. But i will say i no longer hold this opinion and am enjoying the podcast! Keep it up!
