
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 -
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Human vision science is huge and very active (e.g. see big conferences like https://www.visionsciences.org/ ). Why do you think it ended in 1990?
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Thanks for the pointer! I will follow up on this when I get a chance. My literature review may have missed important stuff!
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