Bad science used in attempted demonstration that science is mostly bad. Aaargh. http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/psychology-replications/files/gilbert_king_pettigrew_wilson_2016_with_appendix.pdf?m=1456973260 …
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@St_Rev Ugh. It does look pretty damning. My prior is that the original science was bad AND the replication attempts were bad. -
@St_Rev Problems include the professionalization of science, the pc-ization of any study of people, but mainly failure to teach/understand > -
@St_Rev > the meta-scientific issues—not of narrow methodology, but of how science actually works and how to do it well -
@Meaningness@St_Rev I've been following this closely, and come down on the "crisis" side. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0149794 … -
@Meaningness@St_Rev social psych evolved a culture of under powered experiments as engine for false positive results. Performance art... -
@robamacl@Meaningness Interesting to see if they're converging on optimum (study time/expense) x (likelihood of publishable result) -
@robamacl@Meaningness er likelihood/expense I guess. collusion to accept norms that push up publishability & push down expense -
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