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Large parts of psychology research of the past couple of decades turned out to be crap. ("non-reproducible" in scientific terms, but "crap" is close enough.) K
by hannob 9y ago
Large parts of psychology research of the past couple of decades turned out to be crap. ("non-reproducible" in scientific terms, but "crap" is close enough.)
Kahneman has defended much of this research in the past. But at least he's smart enough to recognize his mistakes, which cannot be said about many of his colleagues.
- kenjackson 9y agoIs it limited to priming or is it a bunch of other parts of psychology too?
- drivers99 9y agoThere were some problems last year reproducing ego depletion despite its prominence for the last couple decades.[1][2] Personally, I run across the concept a lot in popular books and articles that I read (from before the controversy), so it presents a problem for me in whether to believe them if it's not actually true. [1] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/07/31/end-of-ego-depletion/#.Wbg5Ouvyu5M http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/07/31/en... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Reproducibility_controversy_and_conflicting_meta_analyses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Reproducibility_...
- corn_dog 9y agoOr famous enough to be able to do so at no real to cost himself.