Nine years after the “train wreck” letter, they still think priming is basically real! researchgate.net/profile/Jeffre
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These are some of the studies from the “robust results” citation citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/downlo
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I think shifting the focus to “adequate power” and stuff like that (rather than the abstract noun wrangling/magic trick issue) is clever of them - I’ve been trying to explain the heart of the problem for a year and it’s really hard, they will probably win!
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I don’t get whether they are actually salvaging something or just saving face. Is there a there there at all?
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I think their goals are to 1) get people to stop using the term “social priming” because it’s a slur now, and 2) get people to stop trying to replicate experiments and making them look bad
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But is there a there there? Or pure noise? Like, it’s a seductive thesis. I’d at least like the seductiveness explained. Like there are theories of why we make up gods. Is priming a religious type belief?
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idk I find it amazing that people still find it plausible, when that was literally me not long ago - I think it’s kind of an aesthetic thing, maybe religion is too
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