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I am a social scientist studying human behavior, and this is a huge problem in the field. Myself and my statistician friends who analyze the literature have bas
by benrawk 10y ago
I am a social scientist studying human behavior, and this is a huge problem in the field. Myself and my statistician friends who analyze the literature have basically concluded that most extremely "novel" and "surprising" findings in the literature aren't even worth trying to replicate (remember, replications cost money to run, so before you start you have to make some judgment about the likelihood of success.) This is especially true of the "sexiest" sub-topics in the field, like social priming and embodied cognition. If you want to learn more about this, the place to look is Andrew Gelman's blog: http://andrewgelman.com/ http://andrewgelman.com/
- angry-hacker 10y agoThank you. At first I thought puzzagate?! - I don't need that bs, but this is very different pizzagate. I once found a good blog about mental health and science, a lot of snakeoil shown about srris, adhd etc. but I'm unable to find it now. Can anyone help me out?
- Fenrisulfr 10y agoIs it thelastpsychiatrist.com ?
- bigboat 10y agowww.slatestarcodex.com ?
- FabHK 10y agoRolf Degen runs a great and responsive Twitter on results and replication failures in social sciences, not sure he has a blog. https://twitter.com/DegenRolf https://twitter.com/DegenRolf http://retractionwatch.com/2016/08/05/meet-one-of-science-publishings-sentinels-rolf-degen/ http://retractionwatch.com/2016/08/05/meet-one-of-science-pu...