I always think back fondly to my undergraduate psychology degree, when cherry-picked studies were regarded as fact and the world was a simpler place
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It's amazing how often I think of something I learned in psych, look it up, and realize what I was taught as solid science was based on an unreplicated trial from 15-30 years ago
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Sometimes it was based on a single RCT that was superseded by a meta-analysis that found no effect
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Just makes me think about how easy it is to craft an undergraduate course that plays to your own biases
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I wanna design an undergrad course that makes a bunch of totally contradictory statements based on cherry-picked research and see if anyone notices/cares
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