What preference falsification cascades are you patiently waiting for?
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the existence of positive knowledge about social science
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David Chapman Retweeted Tal Yarkoni
Check this out (tweetstorm will be forthcoming, but it’s relevant here)https://twitter.com/talyarkoni/status/1220095499681902593 …
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Tal Yarkoni @talyarkoniexcellent, enjoyable discussion of my recent preprint on generalization in psychology (https://psyarxiv.com/jqw35 ). if you don't want to read 20 dense pages, you could listen to 40 minutes of this podcast and come away with a pretty accurate summary. thanks@minzlicht,@yorl! https://twitter.com/fourbeerspod/status/1219983054908817408 …Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes -
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TL;DR: two prominent social psychologists (who are fun to listen to) concluding that the gap between experiment and theory is currently unbridgeable and we basically don’t know anything. cc
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Sounds promising
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Sucks to be a social psychologist in 2020
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But the problem goes way beyond psychology. It’s particularly relevant to AI, but lots of other fields as well. Some fundamental rethinking of science is badly needed. The slowdown @tylercowen & @patrickc & others note is not coincidence
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