Science advocates couldn’t admit “we have no idea how or why science works, but it seems money well spent.” So science adopted statistical methods originally developed for industrial QC and for social measurement, and pretended that mindless application would turn out Truth.
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There is no mindless path to truth. The replication crisis has multiple roots, but the rationalist assumption that statistics, applied by rote, can somehow tell you what’s true (with a specified probability) may be the deepest.
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Replying to @Meaningness @everytstudies
That bugbear might turn out to be a straw man. The replication crisis disproportionately affects mindful (meaning oriented) approaches to truth, from Marshmallow to Milgram experiment. Our addiction to meaning biases us.
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There's something to that. Replication seems worst where there is most scope for interpretation -- at that point, statistical methods are simply used as justification, covering for weak methods elsewhere.
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The problem might be that
@Meaningness is unduly biased against rationalism. He has convinced himself that he has a discovered a deeper, metarational tool that lets him better intuit the noumenon amid the general nebulosity of his logically broken universe.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
I read him to be staunchly pro-rational. It's just that rationalism can't deliver what it claims, at least not without some other type of reasoning that is much less formalizable. And he's far from the first to notice that.
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Yes, that :)
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Ok but I would also pay to see David and Eliezer in a cage fight.
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I dunno
We tried a few weeks ago, but seem not to be able to understand each other’s main point. Peculiar.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
I actually want to see that, if there's a public record somewhere.
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Oh, it was on twitter. If you https://search.twitter.com for either of us addressing the other, it’ll show up. Dozens of tweets from both of us. We didn’t get anywhere though.
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