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(Careful, heard this "story" about dcposch, he might send you to jail too.) On more factual note, it's a known issue that as you move from hard to soft science

by nxzero 10y ago

(Careful, heard this "story" about dcposch, he might send you to jail too.) On more factual note, it's a known issue that as you move from hard to soft sciences that positive results increase: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0010068 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... Fields studying topics like "happiness" tend to validate their hypothesis over 90% of the time; which means something fishy is going on.

Ma8ee 10y ago
Or they just chose to test something fairly obvious, like that people that are good at things are considered more attractive than people who aren't.
- lsinger 10y ago
  ... or negative results are a lot less likely to be accepted for publication.