I’m really not a replication crisis expert though, @KaseyBunker5 @eigenrobot is this a reasonable summation?
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Very good
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Replying to @eigenrobot @overrunbysuits and
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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Replying to @tjqhockey @eigenrobot and
Isn't it just electric signals? Ez
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I'm not a neuroscientist and your question is pretty Big, but basically human behavior is explained by a huge array of factors that vary a lot from context, so it's hard to develop theories and especially hard to test them.
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Replying to @eigenrobot @tjqhockey and
It is just electrical signals (and chemicals and some other stuff) but that in isolation is hard to turn into a theory. Think about how tough it would be to figure out a computer if you were a scientist in 1800. Same epistemic difficulty scale basically
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People isolate from context in other areas all the time tho, why is it different in psych? Also the brain as a computer image is weird but makes a ton of sense. Btw ty for these answers this is a fun conversation
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There's a good example of context mattering in Feynman's speech on Cargo Cult Science--don't have it on me but it's widely published. In this case, it's a mouse psych. experiment, involving a maze; spoiler, but subtle context matters a lot even in simple cases like mice.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
In some cases, you can get a useful and interesting result from an experiment by demonstrating that a person might behave in a certain way at all--context matters less, then. But,
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Replying to @eigenrobot @tjqhockey and
often the studies are trying to make a claim that applies generally. In those cases, if context commonly deviates from experimental conditions in important ways, you get policy built around the narrow result that may work quite badly when applied generally.
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