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>You come up with an idea, TEST, see if it works, evaluate and so on. Sadly it's not so simple as most 'tests', papers etc. are crap even if they look reasonab
by Tenoke 5y ago
>You come up with an idea, TEST, see if it works, evaluate and so on.
Sadly it's not so simple as most 'tests', papers etc. are crap even if they look reasonable on first glance.
- duxup 5y agoAnd yet somehow progress is made. I don't think the gist of your statement makes much sense.
- Tenoke 5y ago'Trusting the Science' isn't a discussion on how to drive progress as a researcher but how to evaluate it as an outsider.
- duxup 5y agoThe outcome of trusting that the scientific method has worked and works is relevant.
- Viliam1234 5y agoA part of the scientific method is trying to replicate studies... which is essentially an expression of distrust.
- Jensson 5y agoIs progress really made in the social sciences? Any evidence for that? Lets say within the past 20 years.
- duxup 5y agoI thought the topic was more ... science science (i'm not sure how to say that) and not in the social sciences.
- Tenoke 5y agoI'd say the replication crisis on its own has brought a lot of progress at least if you count disproving the existence of many effects that were accepted 20 years ago. Similarly, some effects have replicated under more rigorous experiments (even if typically with low effect sizes) giving us more confidence they are real.
- Jensson 5y agoHas the field actually acknowledged the replication crisis and made efforts to fix it for the future? If not the field didn't progress at all, it was just sceptic outsiders who learned something about the field not the people who "trust the science".
- Tenoke 5y agoThere are holdouts but yes, it's well acknowledged and there are many trying to battle it (e.g. with better designs, pre-registrations etc.) The replications are mostly conducted by other insiders in the first place, it's hardly just outsiders pointing it out.
- Jensson 5y agoOk, so if it turns out well we can maybe start trusting the social sciences that properly reformed in a few decades or so when they have rooted out most problems. But as of now I am still sceptical of those fields.