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I find the rat park experiment intriguing, but have there been any further studies or attempts to replicate the results?
by andrewjl 9y ago
I find the rat park experiment intriguing, but have there been any further studies or attempts to replicate the results?
- emiliobumachar 9y agoFrom http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/25/against-rat-park/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/25/against-rat-park/, slightly paraphrased to disambiguate the references. I do highly recommend this blog post if you're interested in the topic. "Two studies (1, 2) tried and failed to replicate the results. Another two (3, 4) tried and mostly succeeded. There’s some concern that the rat strain involved might have various substrains that the different experiments didn’t control for. But a result that can’t survive a change in rat substrains has pretty dismal prospects for applicability to humans." [1] http://sci-hub.io/10.2466/pr0.1996.78.2.391 http://sci-hub.io/10.2466/pr0.1996.78.2.391 [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2616610 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2616610 [3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3696469 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3696469 [4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18463628 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18463628
- andrewjl 9y agoExactly what I was looking for, thanks!