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You have hopes that psychology is a robust enough science that it can improve it's replication rate? Not sure there's evidence of this at all.
by SpikeDad 8y ago
You have hopes that psychology is a robust enough science that it can improve it's replication rate? Not sure there's evidence of this at all.
- btilly 8y agoYes, I have hope that psychology is trying to replicate what they thought were established results. After a few rounds of that we'll have a limited body of knowledge that has been successfully replicated enough that, despite the overall replication rate, we can trust those results. Once that body of reasonably certain psychological observations is established and starts growing, it will be possible to make some statements about psychology with a high degree of confidence. But whether that coalesces into a paradigm about how to understand people that turns it into a recognizable science is another story.
- SpikeDad 8y agoSeems difficult to imagine such positivity with replication considering how much psychological science depends on subjective information from subjects using "evaluation tools". Who knows what it means when I answer the question "How depressed am I" with 5?