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I'm pretty sure this parenting advice was based on a psychological experiment that failed to replicate.
by SamReidHughes 8y ago
I'm pretty sure this parenting advice was based on a psychological experiment that failed to replicate.
- hyperpape 8y agoYou may be right about some particular study, but in general, there is a lot of research around growth mindset, and I have not heard about failures to replicate (though I cannot vouch that they haven't happened): https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/08/no-clarity-around-growth-mindset-yet/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/08/no-clarity-around-grow....
- taeric 8y agoJust Google "psychology replication crisis". Pretty sure it will hit on a lot of this. Last I heard, which could be outdated, is most of the popular experiments have failed to replicate to a good measure. Odds are, if you just heard of an experiment, it hasn't replicated. Worse, many of the studies were propping each other up. So that when one failed to replicate, it brought the others into question.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoThere’s clarity that the original study was way overblown and the effect size is, on average, really small. I don’t know whether this parenting advice was actually borne of that research, but it smells like it. But also, the advice is at worst harmless, if not obvious.
- taeric 8y agoIt saddens me that that seems to be true for damned near all of psychology. :(