
Disciplines wax and wane often for incidental reasons. Three examples: statistics, human vision research, adult developmental psychology… 
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Gotta sell my ideas
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Problem may be that training increases achievement gaps, because more cognitive ability translates into extracting more knowledge from the same observation.
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Whenever someone poses a challenge and its solution as a tenable and infinite good solely in one direction, I get very wary. Surely "just make everyone smarter," or worse, "increase the intelligence of this subgroup," comes with a lot of third-/ fourth- order effects.
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Careful David, you're inviting a Maoist public shaming by daring to endorse such "alt-right" thinking.
Don't you know we're all equal and merely advantaged by social conditions?
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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.
Adult developmental psychology also ended in the early 1990s. There were strong results, exciting open questions, and good methods. The studies under way in the late 80s, which should have answered key questions, were never published.
Did they get null or ambiguous results?