Dammit, all the best cocktail party social science is now in the dumpster.
Hardcore and detailed takedown of Mouse utopia study by Gwern. Seems that no one else bothered to seriously address it before? https://www.gwern.net/Questions#mouse-utopia …pic.twitter.com/QGEmbc6qZc
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It's those too.
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How much would it cost to live stream a replication attempt? You could go all high tech, track everything, name every mouse.
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You could, I've seen some cool ML-based camera-tracking systems on Biorxiv, and you can genotype each mouse to trace exact ancestry etc. But you couldn't get funds for it because it'd be 'unethical', as one person who tried told me the IRB killed their attempt.
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You should also remember that in the soft sciences, nothing ever gets refuted; like old soldiers, they just fade away. The lack of direct replications or extensions shows (pace the Many Labs PMs) that the field knew perfectly well it's extremely dubious.
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(Meehl discusses this nicely for psychology, but Derek Lowe has noted this also happens in chemistry sometimes; some areas of research just 'mysteriously' stop being done. Nobody ever refutes it formally, but people get the word.)
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Because it has an aura of "Truthiness"
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(i.e. fits with people's preexisting beliefs, & also probably functions as a nice signal of smartness + virtue amongst the type of people who spread it.)
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Basically my psychology degree. 3 years of learning the most famous psychology studies by heart so that you can use them in the exams. Then 2 years with a few "Oh, by the way. That top 10 study in psychology? Totally faked. Carry on."
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