A quick story about replication: When I was working on my PhD, I decided to do some modelling of affective priming data. I chose a (1/13)
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People not pepper

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Also no effect is sort of OK, but the super best thing is to also understand why it didn't work (as much as can be). Something which I also
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But of course the literature doesn't accommodate understanding why it didn't work - failures become field lore, not systematic knowledge
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it will be a while before we get a handle on turning all the work that is done into real, systematic knowledge, I think.
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Yeah I think so... though I still think the pressure to publish amazing effects instead of 'boring' replications causes a lot of this.

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I think a lot of stuff is really complex, like misunderstanding what one's doing. E.g. student: "the exp didn't work" — what does work mean?
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Usage of words by trainees really indicates what misunderstandings/inappropriate ideas people have because of the culture.
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By complex I mean people absorb stuff slowly over time and it's tough to show them another way of doing stuff. Convincing can be exhausting.
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