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I never did get around to reading thinking fast and slow or any major work in behavioral econ for that matter. Kinda glad now. Whole house of cards appears to be falling apart at the foundations. Bias-sniping now feels like it's at the same level as astrology and myers-briggs
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Daniel Kahneman, towering figure of social psychology, declares behavioral priming - which he himself was instrumental in making popular - "effectively dead". edge.org/adversarial-co
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never saw that as being a significant part of the problem, and I approve of that actually. Things wrong with behavioral econ/social psych weren't things that could be fixed by ideas from outside it. the problems were internal to the methods and concepts of their own field
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It was reading this book + Googling things that instigated me to learn about the replication crisis in the first place. Consequently I didn't make it past Part II.
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House of cards is a good metaphor here. The whole thing seemed too illusory, like a great unveiling that didn’t actually yield any results for those witnessing the show. Loads of people read these concepts but the concepts would just be duds, not being useful at all.