The replication crisis is less a product of statistical illiteracy and more a product of a zero-sum academic job/grant market that favors metrics over thoughtful science. Self-policing is a technocratic band-aid; we need to organize against incentive structures imposed from abovehttps://twitter.com/HeuristicLineup/status/1125121874755604480 …
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As in certain people are using the notion of a crisis to further their careers because they are at a boring cul-de-sac and need funding in a tough system?
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Replying to @MarcusMunafo @j_theriault
Hehehe. But honestly, I hold you in high regard: "Maybe one reason replication has captured so much interest is the often-repeated idea that falsification is at the heart of the scientific enterprise."
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This idea was popularized by Karl Popper's 1950s maxim that theories can never be proved, only falsified. Yet an overemphasis on repeating experiments could provide an unfounded sense of certainty about findings that rely on a single approach....
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philosophers of science have moved on since Popper. Better descriptions of how scientists actually work include what epistemologist Peter Lipton called in 1991 "inference to the best explanation.""
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Replying to @o_guest @j_theriault
Have you seen our animation to go with this?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JEQ_tcweqz8 …
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And awesome
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