Incredibly funny that we are going to have to abandon the entire endeavor of psychology. All that time and money and then everyone sheepishly admitting that it turns out its actually not a type of science.
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Replying to @tjqhockey @overrunbysuits
I don't get how they can just like not replicate the results. Are people ready for the experiments? Did brains change over time? All of the results had good reasons behind them. I am questioning everything rn...
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Replying to @tjqhockey
There isn’t a single definitive answer to these questions but the short answer is that psychology is not able to be reliably tested by our current methods. Human mind still too complex for us.
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Replying to @overrunbysuits @tjqhockey
A major part, and one that helps explain the medical aspect, is that the threshold of what constitutes a successful experiment is too low and too easily manipulated. So lots of experiments that “showed” something actually only hinted at it or had no real correlation at all.
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Replying to @overrunbysuits @tjqhockey
But in every discipline there is huge pressure to produce results and to get published and to show findings rather than finding an abscence of correlation.
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Replying to @overrunbysuits @tjqhockey
I’m really not a replication crisis expert though,
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Very good
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Happy to take follow up questions I am desperate to talk about something more fun than the world collapsing
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Replying to @eigenrobot @overrunbysuits and
What has been the standard for publishing a reputable "successful" psych study pre discovery of the replication crisis, and what's wrong with it?
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Replying to @infinitesets_ @eigenrobot and
Why is the brain so hard to understand
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