In the past 2 wks I learned there is so much incoherence in the ways psych collects & evaluates evidence. My assessment is, at least at indiv. level, we researchers don't seem to do research w the goal to reach consensus. My assessment comes from digging into 2 literature: 1/
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From a motivation perspective I agree w that. Altho I think the notion of working alone on an idea & making sure no others beats you to it has been a thing in the early days of science, I’d suppose same as in psych. 1/6
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but there were less people doing research then, less papers published a year and process of doing research were also slower. Some “wacky” papers that make little advancement to the field are likely unheard of and the idea would just stop there. 2/6
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