
Disciplines wax and wane often for incidental reasons. Three examples: statistics, human vision research, adult developmental psychology… 
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Σ As a student, statistics seemed like the ugliest, more boring, most stagnant field I’d ever heard of.
It’s now the one I’m most excited about. What changed? Smart people realized the boring stuff also doesn’t work. There’s a meta-rational revolution going on in the field.2 replies 8 retweets 18 likesShow this thread -
Σ The meta-rational revolution in statistics is partly driven by external force, namely the replication crisis and research practices reform movement. (Fast computers enabling new methods do also play a role.) 1︎⃣1 reply 0 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -

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.2 replies 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -

My impression is that fMRI killed the field. It had tremendous promise, so everyone switched to using it, and then it took a couple decades to figure out it doesn’t really work, and by that time the old methods had been forgotten. 2︎⃣2 replies 1 retweet 10 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @Meaningness
Being fascinated by tetrachromacy in particular, I feel this is a real shame.
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That *is* a fascinating phenomenon! I’ve read a little about it, but don’t know what research has happened in the past couple decades. Do you?
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Replying to @Meaningness
No, I haven’t seen anything recent other than anecdotal reports. No serious research being done AFAIK.
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