Posted on 08/29/2018 6:09:45 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Psychologists are in the midst of an ongoing, difficult reckoning. Many believe that their field is experiencing a “reproducibility crisis,” because they’ve tried and failed to repeat experiments done by their peers. Even classic results—the stuff of textbooks and TED talks—have proven surprisingly hard to replicate, perhaps because they’re the results of poor methods and statistical tomfoolery. These problems have spawned a community of researchers dedicated to improving the practices of their field and forging a more reliable way of doing science.
These attempts at reform have met resistance. Critics have argued that the so-called crisis is nothing of the sort, and that researchers who have failed to repeat past experiments were variously incompetent, prejudiced, or acting in bad faith.
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Many scientific studies can’t be replicated. That’s a problem.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/08/27/trouble-in-science-massive-effort-to-reproduce-100-experimental-results-succeeds-only-36-times/
And that’s aside from liberal prejudices infecting the social sciences in ways that warp scientific studies.
The big review paper on the lack of political diversity in social psychology
http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/09/14/bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity/
Psychology is claptrap.
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Sociology is outright marxism.
Pure garbage, lefty wishfull thinking.
Society is a flawed, fictional model with no legitimate purpose.
Nah, it’s simple as people betting against strange or counter intuitive results.
The only problem is that once in a while the counter intuitive strategy turns out to be the correct one. Exhibit a. How Donald Trump won the presidency
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