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Why, time and time again, do we see results of major studies by career scientists which don't pass a moment's scrutiny by the educated layman?
by hanoz 5y ago
Why, time and time again, do we see results of major studies by career scientists which don't pass a moment's scrutiny by the educated layman?
- iratewizard 5y agoHave career scientists been held accountable for the replication crisis? I know Hanlon's razor says not to, but at this point I can't help but think medical and social science have been more or less taken over to produce propaganda. Not too dissimilar to what the CIA did during the Cold War.
- bigfudge 5y agoIt really doesn't need to be that complicated. From what I can see (in Psychology) a combination of statistical illiteracy and motivated cognition is more than enough.
- Robotbeat 5y agoLet’s just assume for the moment that the experiment is actually invalid (due to poor control group). Experiments that have good control groups don’t show spectacular results. Only those experiments that have spectacular results get publicized by the popular media. Therefore you are seeing a kind of bias particular more to the popular media than necessarily the scientific field.