As others have mentioned, not particularly good science. They might not want to go into the specifics of the research, but even I can see flaws in how it is conducted. Correlation vs. causation? Double-blind testing?I can't see the reputations of the researchers being helped by this.
It's also frustratingly Western oriented. The only non-Western country visited so far is Singapore, but it's all about a Western researcher working there. What about different cultures? Cambodia? Japan?
I have a professional interest in this, from a machine learning perspective, and while I wasn't expecting hard science, this is disappointing.
