"WEIRD" meaning in English

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          "text": "Perhaps one of the more striking distinctions between WEIRD societies and non-WEIRD societies (what Henrich, Heine, and Norenzayan call small-scale societies in their paper) is a distinction in visual perception processes.",
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          "text": "Again, it is likely that the majority of researchers in psychology and related fields are themselves members of WEIRD populations, living and working within WEIRD societies.",
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