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There's also something to be said for the replication crisis in certain highly-politicized fields of sociology and psychology. People (rightly, IMHO) realize t
by omginternets 10y ago
There's also something to be said for the replication crisis in certain highly-politicized fields of sociology and psychology.
People (rightly, IMHO) realize that political activists sometimes work under the guise of scientific researchers. It shouldn't come as a surprise that this kind of conduct erodes confidence in the field as a whole.
Sadly, the baby has a nasty habit of being thrown out with the bath water...
- pjc50 10y agoThe replication crisis is not helped by the grant process, which demands ever more citable results but does not care about replication.
- zigzigzag 10y agoThis is a key problem fuelling climate change skepticism. People look at the structure of academia and notice that the way to get money in such a system is by convincing committees of your peers that your research is more important than other people's research. And saying "my research could literally save the world from total destruction" is the trump card in such a game, thus people are highly incentivised to play it.
- kem 10y agoNot disagreeing with you, but the replication crisis is happening everywhere, especially in the biomedical sciences. In fact, analyses have suggested it may be worse in certain fields, like cognitive neuroscience (whether or not you consider that a branch of psychology or biology is maybe debatable).
- omginternets 10y agoIndeed, but I mention sociology and (social) psychology in particular because of their clear potential for political slant.
- zigzigzag 10y agoIs it happening everywhere? I haven't heard of a replication crisis in physics, maths or computer science. There do seem to be problems with replication in studies of people.