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Sources?

• forrestthewoods 10y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park#Reaction_to_the_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park#Reaction_to_the_exper... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9148292?dopt=Abstract http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9148292?dopt=Abstract I should say, the results have not been replicated. There's only been a few attempts. Maybe the replicators screwed up! To quote the root article: "But ultimately I should be able to replicate your findings and you should be able to replicate my findings, otherwise it’s not science, it’s bullshit." So far Rat Park has not be replicated.
  • srtjstjsj 10y ago
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2616610?dopt=Abstract https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2616610?dopt=Abstract found that isolated rats took more heroin earlier than rats in "group housing". It's not clear from the abstract how the "group housing" compares to "Rat Park", but it may be the case that even better housing would delay heroin ingestion even longer. Rat Park has been under-studied.
  • forkandwait 10y ago
    Yet again, my take away is that most psychology experiments are mostly bullshit. If there were 12 attempts to replicate, with the same setup, and 10 of them failed succeeded, we might actually be able to say something...