Three related ideas that are just bollocks. 1)The problems that social and other sciences are facing are new, the product of late last century inappropriate practices of research. - Throughout history, research methods have always been adapting, improving, >>https://twitter.com/twitemp1/status/1100368265795325953 …
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adjusting to new knowledge and better instruments. Next generations will necessarily judge previous ones' ways as inaccurate and substandard. That is intrinsic to progress. Yet, although advancement can sometimes imply quantum jumps, it always requires anchoring in past knowledge
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2)There is a replication crisis of phenomena - There is no such, but a misguided and incorrect understanding of the nature and conditions of the psychological phenomena and, critically of the conclusions that can be derived from any empirical, or otherwise studies, >>
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grounded on statistical analyses. Words like “seem”, “appear”, “might” … were replaced at some point with assertive expressions “is/are”, “entail”, … WRONG! 3)Scientific knowledge is built by accumulating data, theories are mere accessories. -Many scientists, particularly >>
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in the Anglo-Saxon culture, have been trained as highly qualified specialists, limiting their knowledge and capability of analysis to very restricted areas and to the designing of specific test hypothesis. They have been deprived of the necessary skills to integrate >>
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their very productive but focused expertise within global knowledge. They have been robbed the big picture!
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The lack of big picture stuff is a huge deal IMHO. I find even the rhetoric is toxic around discussing what big picture thinking even is. I even know people who assert that science is about details and NOT big picture.
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Yeap. Ppl mistaking the engineering, technical aspects with science itself.
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