
Disciplines wax and wane often for incidental reasons. Three examples: statistics, human vision research, adult developmental psychology… 
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Evidence was that these capacities are unevenly distributed demographically. This could be taken as reason to find ways to enhance cognitive development in disadvantaged groups. Instead, I suspect it was too politically hot, and everyone exited the field. 3︎⃣Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Human vision research appears to have ended around 1990 (based on a recent two-day-long literature search). That’s when I finished my PhD and stopped following the field.
What happened? There were exciting open questions, and good methods for addressing them.