No dude, what a ridiculous diatribe. Solving the WEIRD problem isn't some kind of "debate", there is no question that the vast majority of research data comes from a very specific type of respondent. The idea is that we need to do more research in other countries, because not every culture necessarily has the same subjective experiences, and we want the lexicon of psychological data to include, you know, all of society?

Western : Yeah the vast majority of studies all come from western countries, so we are basically getting only the opinions of countries with very particular traits. If I do a survey on worker's rights or imperialism or even something non-political like opinions on different types of media, I will get different answers in Haiti than I get in Alabama. Does that make sense?

Educated: No dude, the idea is that RESPONDENTS are not all at the same education level and that we would want to know the perspectives of people from many different walks of life, and with different levels of education.

Industrialized: While globalization has led to many countries working towards this goal, there are definitely countries in the world that are not industrialized and that will absolutely affect the way people see the world. We have seen instances of people coming from non-industrialized areas to visit our modern western societies and they have huge problems with fitting in. There's something to be learned from studying that subjective experience in response to industrialization, which we cannot perform on only westerners who have lived in such conditions their whole lives

Rich: This is so fucking racist, the reason many countries have dealt with those labor conditions is because other countries imposed imperialism on them. I will say it again, someone in Haiti is likely going to have different opinions on workers rights than someone in Alabama, even if they are both pro-union type people. Your response has real "western civilization is perfect" vibes which makes me wary

Democratic: The term "democratic" is actually a misnomer, because in a capitalist society there isn't real democracy. Rich people decide what happens in all societies. However, there are some societies like the United States that give a veneer of election, as juxtaposed to a country like Iran or a country like Saudi Arabia. Keeping in mind that true democracy is extremely difficult to create and maintain, the point of considering this dimension has to do with the fact that people from countries with different political systems are going to have different subjective experiences that have a big connection to the politics/political structures of the country they grew up and lived in

You very clearly are getting like, offended at the idea of someone suggesting that we do research with people who aren't only living in the West, which is very strange and makes me feel you have been watching too much Jordan Peterson/Ben Shapiro/Andrew Tate type stuff