Delightful and fascinating post on the state of social science papers.
Many interesting points, but my favorite was noting the lack of theory: improving replication rates isn't enough, because many of the papers which do replicate aren't meaningfully accretive. (h/t )
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Over the past year I have skimmed through more than 2500 social science papers. I wrote a giant post about everything that's wrong with them and how to fix the process that generates them: fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/wha
Some highlights below.
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